According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, workers with an associate's degree earned over $300 more per week than those with a high school diploma.
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And with this economic downturn, junior college admissions are up, up, up. You don't need to go far to find that that's true.
Here in Austin, Texas, we have Austin Community College, a college with a wide range of curriculum that will solve your summertime blues, as well as increase your paycheck.
Registered nurses earned a mean annual income of $65,130 in 2008. The shortest path to this booming healthcare career is an associate's degree, and this era of change the medical profession is surely changing the most. Nurses today will be the frontline practitioners in the future.
Austin Community College also has programs in advanced technology, applied technology, computer studies, and multimedia, all of which can lead to an associate's degree in a technology of some sort that will almost certainly increase your income. AAMC hired a Webmaster recently.
Among the areas of study that Austin Community College provide is graphic design. About 25 percent of all graphic designers are self-employed.
Work at home anybody? Pharmacy technicians earn about $28,500 a year. Pharmacy aids earn a little less.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this year that unemployment was 3.7 percent for anyone with an associate's degree, compared to 9 percent for folks with less than high school diploma.
