(ARA) - If the financial meltdown and ensuing recession and unemployment were a car wreck and U.S. workers were passengers, higher education would be car insurance. Indeed, higher education has played a major role in buffering many American workers from the worst of the recession. The lesson has been learned: the higher your degree, the safer you are from economic distress.
"Those who think a bachelor's degree is good enough need only take a look at the recent recession," says Janet Hill, a career analyst at
ClassesandCareers.com, a leading online education information service. "Even people with bachelor's degrees were struggling. You need all the education you can get to stay afloat in this economy."
Hill says, for the country at-large and for individual households, nothing provides career stability like post-graduate degrees. Those with post-grad degrees enjoy higher salaries, with master's degree holders making $64,000 per year on average, $14,000 more than bachelor's degree holders.
Professional and doctoral degree holders, like accountants or lawyers, make $80,000 per year on average. They also report far lower levels of unemployment and job dissatisfaction.
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