Social sciences majors have a hard time finding a job right out of college. Graduates with a social sciences degree are entering a strange job market and it can be hard to find your first job in social sciences. To make finding a job easier, Zippia scanned through 19,515 social sciences major resumes to identify the jobs social sciences majors most prefer.
Highest-Paying Jobs With a Social Sciences Degree
- Starting Salary$53,000Job openings253,138Top Locations:Job Description:Management analysts, often called management consultants, propose ways to improve the efficiency of an organization. They advise managers on how to make organizations more profitable through reduced costs and increased revenues.
- Starting Salary$44,000Job openings205,561Top Locations:Job Description:Account Executives are responsible for looking after the company's client as well as keeping the company-client relationships at a high standard. Their goal is to increase the amount of business a company does with those clients.
- Starting Salary$41,000Job openings44,365Top Locations:Job Description:Human resources specialists recruit, screen, interview, and place workers. They often handle other human resources work, such as those related to employee relations, compensation and benefits, and training.
- Starting Salary$37,000Job openings77,340Top Locations:Job Description:Social workers help people solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives. One group of social workers—clinical social workers—also diagnose and treat mental, behavioral, and emotional issues.
- Starting Salary$35,000Job openings37,954Top Locations:Job Description:Human resources specialists recruit, screen, interview, and place workers. They often handle other human resources work, such as those related to employee relations, compensation and benefits, and training.
- Starting Salary$32,000Job openings53,322Top Locations:Job Description:Human resources specialists recruit, screen, interview, and place workers. They often handle other human resources work, such as those related to employee relations, compensation and benefits, and training.
- Starting Salary$31,000Job openings102,464Top Locations:Job Description:Social and human service assistants provide client services, including support for families, in a wide variety of fields, such as psychology, rehabilitation, and social work. They assist other workers, such as social workers, and they help clients find benefits or community services.
- Starting Salary$28,000Job openings51,080Top Locations:Job Description:A Research Assistant helps carry out a particular research agenda. They are generally found in the social science or laboratory setting.
- Starting Salary$27,000Job openings40,408Top Locations:Job Description:Information clerks perform routine clerical duties such as maintaining records, collecting data, and providing information to customers.
- Starting Salary$24,000Job openings103,293Top Locations:Job Description:General office clerks perform a variety of clerical tasks, including answering telephones, typing documents, and filing records.
