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All Institutions, General Studies
Earnings in 2022	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage
20 Years (2001-02 graduates)	$68,933	39%
15 Years (2006-07 graduates)	$65,300	43%
10 Years (2011-12 graduates)	$61,368	50%
8 Years (2013-14 graduates)	$58,336	55%
5 Years (2016-17 graduates)	$46,344	57%
3 Years (2018-19 graduates)	$37,651	60%
18 Months (2020-21 graduates)	$26,454	57%

Only years/programs meeting disclosure rules will be displayed to protect individual confidentiality.
As reminder, the median value represents the very middle value of the sample of values (wage or debt) sorted from low to high. This value is found in the middle line of the barcharts.
The remaining values in the chart are constructed similarly, to display how wages and earnings are distributed. Thus, while the median tells us the middle wage, the values for the 25th and 75th percentiles tell us that half of the graduates with wages fall between those two values. Likewise, 80% of reported wages fall between the 10th and 90th percentiles. The length of each bar section clue to the dispersion in the data - that is, how much earnings can vary within a range a group of individuals.

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General Studies, Graduates from 2012-13 to 2016-17
Institution	Median Wage	Percentage Students w/ Reported Wage	Median Debt	Percentage Students with Debt
Brightpoint Community College	$17,575	67%	$10,631	41%
Northern Virginia Community College	$21,396	57%	$11,428	40%
Piedmont Virginia Community College	$16,061	58%	$9,171	35%
Tidewater Community College	$20,549	59%	$12,140	46%
Virginia Western Community College	$15,096	61%	$9,434	34%