CS grads also have the lowest underemployment rates in the list.
Art history grads will take whatever jobs they happen to find. CS grads will hold out for jobs in their area of expertise (and earn the higest wages because of it).
Direct link to underlying report: https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:...
The mid-career wages are surprisingly low, for all careers.
I've seen this being posted all over, but people rarely seem to realize that data here is from 2023.
Only with hindsight will we know if this is momentary or systemic. Back after the dotcom crash, there were several years of struggle and hustle for new grads, and many people never really got any footing. The past roughly decade has been an anomaly in terms of compensation, number of jobs, etc.
I wouldn't read too much into a few percentage points differences at 1) single digit values and so close to the overall unemployment rate, 2) at a single timepoint.
Good data to think about and resonant with common concerns here, but perhaps no need to panic just yet.
Remember, CS does not mean competent programmers.
I don't think this has much to do with AI and has a lot to do with the current grads declaring their major 4-5 years ago when a confluence of factors crashed together to make programming a job straight from utopia for a short while.
The end result of this will be dirt pay for juniors to weed out who is in it for the passion and who is in it for the money.