{"id":4344,"date":"2016-10-31T08:59:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2016-10-31T08:59:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:59:20","slug":"payscale-com-ranks-fit-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2016\/10\/31\/payscale-com-ranks-fit-1\/","title":{"rendered":"PayScale.com Ranks FIT #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PayScale, which links individuals and businesses to the largest salary profile database in the world, ranks FIT\u00a0first in the nation among community colleges for alumni mid-career salaries ($74,600) in the 2016-17 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payscale.com\/college-salary-report\" target=\"_blank\">PayScale College Salary Report<\/a>. PayScale collects data through an ongoing online compensation survey. The site ranked 1,388 colleges and universities in total, with an average sample size of 325. This salary figure represents an increase of 3.5 percent from last year. PayScale ranked 371 two-year colleges.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second year in a row FIT ranks number two out of 100 schools for alumni holding bachelor\u2019s degrees in art, with a mid-career salary of $90,300. FIT also ranks 110th overall for mid-career salaries among all 983 colleges and universities that grant bachelor\u2019s degrees, with a median salary of $93,100. Among bachelor-degree-granting schools in New York State, FIT came in 17th. Among public colleges and universities nationwide, FIT\u2019s rank was 35th.<\/p>\n<p>So exciting to see that FIT graduates are going on to successful careers throughout the creative industries and have incredible earning potential!<\/p>\n<p>Melinda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayScale, which links individuals and businesses to the largest salary profile database in the world, ranks FIT\u00a0first in the nation among community colleges for alumni mid-career salaries ($74,600) in the 2016-17 PayScale College Salary Report. PayScale collects data through an ongoing online compensation survey. The site ranked 1,388 colleges and universities in total, with an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2016\/10\/31\/payscale-com-ranks-fit-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PayScale.com Ranks FIT #1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8688,133,36458,37317,41182,15369,48522],"tags":[35261,42,48522,145,41292,51690],"class_list":["post-4344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","category-bloggers","category-career-internships","category-continuing-and-professional-studies","category-fyi","category-goals","category-melinda","tag-blogger","tag-fit","tag-melinda","tag-nyc","tag-payscale","tag-salary","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3StnM-184","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}