{"id":27996,"date":"2015-03-26T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T22:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=27996"},"modified":"2015-03-26T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T22:27:27","slug":"how-much-will-a-top-mba-earn-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/how-much-will-a-top-mba-earn-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Will a Top MBA Earn You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poetsandquants.com\/2015\/03\/12\/average-salary-bonus-for-mbas-at-top-business-schools\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/info.accepted.com\/mba-rankings-report\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Do rankings really make a difference? \" src=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dollar-sign.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Poets &amp; Quants<\/a><em>\u00a0released some excellent data last week on the value of an MBA, concluding that b-school grads did very well in 2014 in regards to average salary and bonus. Here are some highlights from the article:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 In 2014,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/harvardhbs.aspx\">Harvard<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/stanford.aspx\">Stanford<\/a>\u00a0grads earned average salaries that exceeded pre-recession levels for the first time. For Harvard MBAs, the average salary was $144,750, compared to $144,261 in 2008. The average salary for Stanford MBAs was $142,834, compared to 2008\u2019s $140,771.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 There were a total of seven b-schools that reported average pay above $140K.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/michiganross.aspx\">Michigan Ross<\/a>\u00a0was one of these schools whose salary and bonus package jumped 20.9% in five years to $140,497.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 Washington Foster experienced a huge increase in average salary and bonuses, from $91,593 in 2010 up 36.9% to $125.367 in 2014. Average salary and bonuses also took huge leaps at Rochester Simon (30.6% - from $78,083 to $101,961) and at Emory Goizueta (28.0% - from $100,300 to $128,347).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 In 2010, only 24\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/zones\/bschools.aspx\">U.S. business schools<\/a>\u00a0landed job that paid six-figures; in 2014, that number increased significantly to 44 schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 The top five schools with the most highly compensated grads were HBS, MIT Sloan, Stanford, Wharton, and Tuck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 A few schools saw year-over-year decreases, including USC (from $116,011 to $114,129), Boston Carroll (from $96,915 to $94,963), and Minnesota Carlson (from $117,972 to $112,828).<\/p>\n<p>See the\u00a0<em>P&amp;Q<\/em>\u00a0article for more details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/info.accepted.com\/mba-rankings-report?utm_campaign=blogcta&amp;utm_medium=MBARankingsReport&amp;utm_source=CTA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Are You Misusing the B-School Rankings?\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MBA_Rankings_CTA.png\" width=\"483\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reports.accepted.com\/mba_in_sight_focus_on_finance\">MBA in Sight: Focus on Finance<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2014\/04\/03\/is-it-worth-it-to-get-an-mba\/\">Does it Pay to Get an MBA?<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2014\/11\/06\/payscale-how-much-you-can-earn-and-how-to-earn-it\/\">PayScale: How Much Can You Earn, and How to Earn It?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poets &amp; Quants\u00a0released some excellent data last week on the value of an MBA, concluding that b-school grads did very well in 2014 in regards to average salary and bonus.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,939,243],"tags":[1896,625,819,27],"class_list":["post-27996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-accepted","category-blog","tag-mba","tag-post-mba-careers","tag-post-mba-salary","tag-rankings","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27998,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27996\/revisions\/27998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}