{"id":876,"date":"2023-12-19T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T22:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/philosophy\/?page_id=876"},"modified":"2023-12-19T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T22:07:46","slug":"potential-careers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-philosophy\/resources\/potential-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Potential Careers<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/12\/26\/business\/philosophers-find-the-degree-pays-off-in-life-and-in-work.html?pagewanted=all\">Philosophers Find the Degree Pays Off in Life and in Work<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 New York Times \u2013 Carol Marie Cropper sheds some light on the benefits of a philosophy degree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.payscale.com\/about\">PayScale, Inc<\/a>.\u00a0offers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.payscale.com\/college-salary-report\/majors-that-pay-you-back\">salary data<\/a>\u00a0that compares salary rankings by undergraduate degrees. Philosophy fares pretty well by comparison to other popular majors\u2014check the data!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-995\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-995 size-uncropped-large\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/Research.com-liberal-arts-salaries-600x318.jpeg\" alt=\"Graph of Median Annual Salaries of Liberal Arts Graduates by Major in USD\" width=\"600\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/Research.com-liberal-arts-salaries-600x318.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/Research.com-liberal-arts-salaries-300x159.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/Research.com-liberal-arts-salaries-1024x544.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/Research.com-liberal-arts-salaries-768x408.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/337\/Research.com-liberal-arts-salaries.jpeg 1494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image designed by Research.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pursue a wide range of career opportunities, as in such fields as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>law<\/li>\n<li>medicine<\/li>\n<li>teaching<\/li>\n<li>social science<\/li>\n<li>politics<\/li>\n<li>business<\/li>\n<li>library science<\/li>\n<li>theology\/clergy<\/li>\n<li>consulting<\/li>\n<li>writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potential Careers Philosophers Find the Degree Pays Off in Life and in Work\u00a0\u2013 New York Times \u2013 Carol Marie Cropper sheds some light on the benefits of a philosophy degree. PayScale, Inc.\u00a0offers\u00a0salary data\u00a0that compares salary rankings by undergraduate degrees. Philosophy fares pretty well by comparison to other popular majors\u2014check the data! Pursue a wide range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"parent":95,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-876","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/876\/revisions\/996"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}