If YOU HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE WOULD YOU GET MORE SALARY THAN A PERSON WITH A HIGH SCHOOL DEGREE?

No, not necessarily. Its not always about what you know, its who you know.

Ask Bill Gates he quit school, Dave the founder of Wendy's also and the owner of u-haul rentals as well college doesn't grantee anything look at Bush ,Cheeney, John kerry and all the politicans who have their degrees but yet they will lie,steal,cheat,murder innocents in war///A college is just for the most part is" symbolism over substance "Unless you specialize in a particular field of study

Depends on the job. Factory workers without a university degree can make more than people with a degree.

My mom is a Personal Support Worker (just lower than a nurse) and has a college degree. My brother works at a factory and makes more than twice her without having a degree.

Yeah, cuz you could get a better job and you'd have a better reputation.

one would certainly hope so

yes. Depending on what kind of job it is, you might not even get the job with only a high school diploma. Unfortunately you can't get very far in life now without a college degree.

Duh... Companies always pay more for a college educated person, alot of professions require degrees.

YES I WILL MAKE MORE MONEY THAN A PERSON WITH A HIGH SCHOOL DEGREE!

Well..it used to be a given..not anymore. Our country needs specialized workers and some of those skills are not found in college. And graduating from college will not be enough for you to jump into a high salary position. In both the real world and college you have to start at the bottom and work up over time to better skills and thus better pay.

This article might help you to decide for yourself.In my honest opinion, it all depends on what you do with it.

it depends upon the work which we do

MOst of the time, yes.

Don't know what a high school degree is? Do you mean diploma? Go to college dumdum

That was traditionally the case. Now there are so many unemployed and under-employed that you can't be so sure. There's pathos here too, see "Facing Middle Age With No Degree, and No Wife" (linked below) in the NY Times of Aug. 6 (free registration required; article should be available online for another few days).

There are lots of reasons: people don't always study the subjects that employers find useful; some skills (sales, for example) are personality-related as much as knowledge-dependent.

That said, a college degree adds enough to quality of life, social stature, and -- over the population as a whole -- employability and salary expectation that I would always encourage any reasonably qualified student to try for it. Lots of young people, in today's hard times, are going to community colleges for two years, and if they do well transferring with a scholarship to a state university or private 4-year college for the last two.

ur initial salary wud be higher no doubt..but ultimately it wud depend on ur performance n capability

Depends on the level of experience the H.S. degree has.

yes, just like a person who has graduated high school makes more than someone who hasn't.

Yes, they say over a lifetime the college degree will be worth about a million dollars.

YUP. SOMETIMES THEY DON'T EVEN CARE IF IT IS IN THE SAME FIELD. JUST AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A DEGREE.

It depends on the job, some jobs and employers do not even require that you have to read! But, if you want to have a "position" and advance in a job, then a college degree may be helpful. Certainly I think common sense should be considered too, but having the college degree says more about you than you just having a "degree"...It shows initiative, it shows that you had the ambition and the "chops" to make it in "a bigger pond".

I say if you can get the college degree, then go for it! If you can't and it's something that you really feel that you need, try looking into night or possibly internet classes from Universities that will allow a working person to achieve at their own pace. No, they may not want you to drag a two year degree into 4, but once you start getting credits, it all applies.

If you do not have the financial ability to get that college degree, consider night classes or home study that can eventually get you the degree. I have always heard that it's better to work smart than to have to work hard.

I have never been sorry that I went to college, and I had to work some pretty boring jobs, and hard work (nights) so I could struggle through classes during the day, (very little help from my family with finances). Now although I am ill I am still able to sit at a desk and be employed because of my degrees. If I had to do a more physically demanding job, I would be forced to accept disability.

If it doesn't help you in your young life, certainly you have to consider that you may not always be in terrific physical condition later in your life. You may still need to work. For me to go out and wait on tables in my condition would be impossible, but to sit on my butt at a desk in an office with AC, is something I can do. The degree can keep you employable even if you might become disabled physically.

Just an opinion and my own personal experience, I have worked in a lot of different jobs, but the jobs that have seemed the most interesting were the ones that required the degrees. If you really want to get a degree, there are programs and grants available according to your own personal situation.

Good luck with whatever you choose, but even if you choose to dig ditches or wash dishes, having the extra knowledge will give you something to really think about while you are working! Anything you learn is something that no one can take away from you, no thief can steal what you KNOW!

Most of the time, yes.

if your going for good jog not only will get paid more the other person probably not get the job

not always, it depends on what you do with one or the other

on average, yes. But there are some jobs out there that require no degree that pay big bucks, like a welder or electrician.

In professional fields, yes. In other words, if you have an engineering degree, you are going to make more as an engineer compared to the metal worker who builds the building with only a high school degree. In some fields (basic office work, burger flipping) you'll make roughly the same.

Not necessarly. What qualifications do you have for this job, and what does your job need to qualify?

EX. If you are unexperienced accountant with a degree you will make less than a accountant who worked for that company as a bookkeeper for 5 years and then got promoted into accounting

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