Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other
US occupation · SOC 19-3099
Pay and outlook
- Median annual wage, May 2025
- $101,110
- Half earn more, half earn less
- Middle half earn
- $80,860 – $129,960
- 25th to 75th percentile
- People employed, May 2025
- 37,100
- Wage and salary jobs (OEWS)
- Projected change, 2025–35
- -0.2%
- Shrinking (below 0%)
- Openings a year (projected)
- 2,700
- New jobs plus replacing people who leave
- Typical education to enter
- Bachelor's degree
- BLS
- All figures are for the United States as a whole. Pay varies a lot by state and city.
- Wages are for everyone working in the occupation in May 2025, at every career stage. They are not starting salaries or figures for new graduates.
- Growth and openings are BLS projections for 2025–35. They are estimates, not promises. Openings include jobs that open up when people retire or change occupation, not just new jobs.
What the work involves
All social scientists and related workers not listed separately.
More specific O*NET® occupations under this one: Transportation Planners.
Description and tasks from the O*NET® 31.0 Database.
Getting in
- Typical education to enter (BLS)
- Bachelor's degree
Fields of study that lead here
From the federal CIP–SOC crosswalk, which links 35 programmes to this occupation. A link means the programme prepares people for this kind of work. It doesn't mean the programme is required, or that it's the only route.
Health & Nursing
- Medical/Health Humanities
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Where many students take health & nursing
- Western Governors UniversitySalt Lake City, UT · 26% of degrees · 155,088 undergraduates
- Grand Canyon UniversityPhoenix, AZ · 33% of degrees · 73,371 undergraduates
- Southern New Hampshire UniversityManchester, NH · 8% of degrees · 163,164 undergraduates
- The University of Texas at ArlingtonArlington, TX · 36% of degrees · 32,294 undergraduates
- University of Central FloridaOrlando, FL · 13% of degrees · 59,146 undergraduates
- University of South FloridaTampa, FL · 17% of degrees · 37,207 undergraduates
Ordered by the field's share of degrees awarded times undergraduate enrolment (College Scorecard), among colleges with at least 1,000 undergraduates. Online universities are included. It's a rough measure of how big the programme is. It says nothing about quality. The share counts every programme in the field, not only the ones linked to this career.
Social Sciences
- Social Sciences, General
- Research Methodology and Quantitative Methods
- Survey Research/Methodology
- Social Sciences, Other
- Demography and Population Studies
- Applied Demography
- Demography, Other
- Social Sciences, Other
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Where many students take social sciences
- University of California-Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA · 25% of degrees · 33,475 undergraduates
- University of California-Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, CA · 27% of degrees · 23,113 undergraduates
- University of California-BerkeleyBerkeley, CA · 17% of degrees · 33,068 undergraduates
- University of California-IrvineIrvine, CA · 15% of degrees · 30,197 undergraduates
- Arizona State University Digital ImmersionScottsdale, AZ · 8% of degrees · 53,782 undergraduates
- University of California-DavisDavis, CA · 13% of degrees · 32,253 undergraduates
Ordered by the field's share of degrees awarded times undergraduate enrolment (College Scorecard), among colleges with at least 1,000 undergraduates. Online universities are included. It's a rough measure of how big the programme is. It says nothing about quality. The share counts every programme in the field, not only the ones linked to this career.
Education
- Educational Evaluation and Research
- Educational Statistics and Research Methods
- Educational Assessment, Testing, and Measurement
- Learning Sciences
- Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research, Other
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Where many students take education
- Western Governors UniversitySalt Lake City, UT · 19% of degrees · 155,088 undergraduates
- Grand Canyon UniversityPhoenix, AZ · 11% of degrees · 73,371 undergraduates
- Liberty UniversityLynchburg, VA · 8% of degrees · 50,012 undergraduates
- Illinois State UniversityNormal, IL · 18% of degrees · 19,057 undergraduates
- Arizona State University Campus ImmersionTempe, AZ · 5% of degrees · 64,674 undergraduates
- University of Nevada-Las VegasLas Vegas, NV · 11% of degrees · 24,622 undergraduates
Ordered by the field's share of degrees awarded times undergraduate enrolment (College Scorecard), among colleges with at least 1,000 undergraduates. Online universities are included. It's a rough measure of how big the programme is. It says nothing about quality. The share counts every programme in the field, not only the ones linked to this career.
Environmental Studies
- Energy and Environmental Policy
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Where many students take environmental studies
- Unity Environmental UniversityNew Gloucester, ME · 39% of degrees · 6,483 undergraduates
- Southern New Hampshire UniversityManchester, NH · 2% of degrees · 163,164 undergraduates
- Oregon State UniversityCorvallis, OR · 7% of degrees · 30,743 undergraduates
- University of California-BerkeleyBerkeley, CA · 5% of degrees · 33,068 undergraduates
- University of VermontBurlington, VT · 13% of degrees · 11,743 undergraduates
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens PointStevens Point, WI · 19% of degrees · 7,306 undergraduates
Ordered by the field's share of degrees awarded times undergraduate enrolment (College Scorecard), among colleges with at least 1,000 undergraduates. Online universities are included. It's a rough measure of how big the programme is. It says nothing about quality. The share counts every programme in the field, not only the ones linked to this career.
Foreign Languages
- Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services, Other
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Where many students take foreign languages
- The University of Texas at AustinAustin, TX · 4% of degrees · 42,855 undergraduates
- Brigham Young UniversityProvo, UT · 3% of degrees · 32,952 undergraduates
- Boise State UniversityBoise, ID · 5% of degrees · 17,674 undergraduates
- University of Wisconsin-MadisonMadison, WI · 2% of degrees · 36,902 undergraduates
- University of ArizonaTucson, AZ · 2% of degrees · 42,537 undergraduates
- University of California-Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA · 2% of degrees · 33,475 undergraduates
Ordered by the field's share of degrees awarded times undergraduate enrolment (College Scorecard), among colleges with at least 1,000 undergraduates. Online universities are included. It's a rough measure of how big the programme is. It says nothing about quality. The share counts every programme in the field, not only the ones linked to this career.
Other fields
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Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences
- Adult Development and Aging
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
- Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution
- Biopsychology
- Gerontology
- Behavioral Sciences
- Holocaust and Related Studies
- Intercultural/Multicultural and Diversity Studies
- Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis
- Human Biology
8 more programmes
- Sustainability Studies
- Anthrozoology
- Economics and Foreign Language/Literature
- Geoarcheaology
- Geography and Environmental Studies
- History and Political Science
- Linguistics and Anthropology
- Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Public Administration and Social Service Professions
- Education Policy Analysis
- Health Policy Analysis
Sources
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Wages: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Projections, typical entry education and training: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025–35. Fields of study: NCES and BLS CIP 2020–SOC 2018 Crosswalk. All public domain. OEWS · Employment Projections · CIP–SOC crosswalk