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All Institutions, Social Sciences, General
Earnings in 2023	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage
20 Years (2001-02 graduates)	$60,694	49%
15 Years (2006-07 graduates)	$55,393	53%
10 Years (2011-12 graduates)	$52,258	53%
8 Years (2013-14 graduates)	$50,452	58%
5 Years (2016-17 graduates)	$41,715	61%
3 Years (2018-19 graduates)	$33,264	58%
18 Months (2020-21 graduates)	$22,407	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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Social Sciences, General, Graduates from 2015-16 to 2019-20
Institution	Median Wage	Percentage Students w/ Reported Wage	Median Debt	Percentage Students with Debt
J Sargeant Reynolds Community College	$18,111	62%	$12,500	36%
Northern Virginia Community College	$18,176	56%	$11,111	39%
Tidewater Community College	$20,291	58%	$11,871	49%
Virginia Peninsula Community College	$18,152	60%	$11,256	45%
Virginia Western Community College	$15,640	67%	$9,596	35%