Other Rhetoric, Composition, or Writing Studies
Information on the businesses and industries that employ English graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for English majors is $93,508 and the most common occupations are Elementary & middle school teachers, Postsecondary teachers, and Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.
The industry that employs the most English majors is Elementary & secondary schools, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Not specified metal industries.
The average salary for English majors is $93,508 and the most common occupations are Elementary & middle school teachers, Postsecondary teachers, and Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for English majors.
The most common occupations for English majors, by number of employees, are Elementary & middle school teachers, Postsecondary teachers, and Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of English majors working as N/A.
The highest paid occupations by median income for English majors are N/A.
The number of English graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 2.26%, from 1.58M in 2023 to 1.62M in 2024.
The largest single share of English graduates go on to work as Elementary & middle school teachers (6.3%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in English by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ English majors, by number of employees, are Elementary & secondary schools, Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges, and Legal services.
The highest paying industries of English majors, by average wage, are Not specified metal industries, Tobacco manufacturing, and Aluminum production & processing.
The number of English graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 2.26%, from 1.58M in 2023 to 1.62M in 2024.
The industry which employs the most English graduates by share is Elementary & secondary schools, followed by Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in English.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of English majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that English majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in English. The most common ages of employees with this major are N/A and N/A years old, which represent N/A% and N/A% of the population, respectively.
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Other Rhetoric, Composition, or Writing Studies field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Other Rhetoric, Composition, or Writing Studies majors need many skills, but most especially Writing. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Other Rhetoric, Composition, or Writing Studies majors need more than the average amount of Writing, Reading Comprehension, and Active Learning.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Other Rhetoric, Composition, or Writing Studies majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Writing is very distinctive for majors, but the Writing, Reading Comprehension, and Speaking are the three most important skills for people in the field.