Advertising and Public Relations Major Salary and Careers Data

This page contains key outcome data for the Advertising and Public Relations Major, estimated using US Census data. See the methodology here. For more on the College Majors Data Dashboard click here.

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Overall Major Information

  • Field: Liberal Arts
  • Average Income: $53,000 (Rank: 69 of 173)
  • 25% Make Less Than: $32,000
  • Unemployment Rate: 3.80% (Rank: 86 of 171)
  • Percent Female: 74.7%
  • Percent Who Get a Masters Degree: 14.9%
  • Percent Who Get a Professional Degree: 3.1%
  • Percent Who Get a PhD: 1.1%
  • Major Popularity Ranking: 34 of 173
  • Major Difficulty (1-5): 2.71 (Rank: 91 of 118)

Careers Information

This list provides the 25 most common careers (occupations) among people in this major, and how much they earn within each occupation.

  1. Managers in Marketing, Advertising, and Public Relations: 10.12% (Average Income: $61,000)
  2. Customer Service Representatives: 4.70% (Average Income: $51,000)
  3. Public Relations Specialists: 4.05% (Average Income: $53,000)
  4. Managers,  (including Postmasters): 3.96% (Average Income: $68,000)
  5. Other Business Operations and Management Specialists: 3.95% (Average Income: $55,000)
  6. Advertising Sales Agents: 3.17% (Average Income: $66,000)
  7. First-Line Supervisors of Sales Workers: 3.11% (Average Income: $58,000)
  8. Secretaries and Administrative Assistants: 3.03% (Average Income: $39,000)
  9. Human Resources, Training, and Labor Relations Specialists: 2.90% (Average Income: $62,000)
  10. Designers: 2.79% (Average Income: $51,000)
  11. Retail Salespersons: 2.71% (Average Income: $41,000)
  12. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing: 2.21% (Average Income: $65,000)
  13. Sales Representatives, Services, All Other: 2.20% (Average Income: $78,000)
  14. Meeting and Convention Planners: 1.78% (Average Income: $52,000)
  15. Computer Scientists and Systems Analysts/Network systems Analysts/Web Developers: 1.74% (Average Income: $63,000)
  16. Waiters and Waitresses: 1.62% (Average Income: $25,000)
  17. Writers and Authors: 1.54% (Average Income: $66,000)
  18. Unemployed, with No Work Experience in the Last 5 Years or Earlier or Never Worked: 1.36%
  19. First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers: 1.27% (Average Income: $62,000)
  20. Elementary and Middle School Teachers: 1.22% (Average Income: $33,000)
  21. Office Clerks, General: 1.17% (Average Income: $32,000)
  22. Office and administrative support workers, : 1.16% (Average Income: $47,000)
  23. Financial Managers: 1.14% (Average Income: $62,000)
  24. General and Operations Managers: 0.92% (Average Income: $69,000)
  25. Artists and Related Workers: 0.91% (Average Income: $70,000)

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Last updated on January 3, 2023