College graduates in Utah generally make more than their peers without degrees, but that varies based on their major of choice.
The average median salary for engineers, like McMullin, is just over $90,000 a year, according to the data — while those working, like McLean, in the education, training and library fields have an average median salary of less than $53,000 a year. McMullin started out making about $7,000 more than the average starting salary after doing an internship at her current company.
McLean has a bachelor’s degree in math, but works in the Salt Lake City Public Library system as an associate librarian at the Marmalade Branch. Out-of-state tuition and books for four years are about $88,450 on average across the six universities, based on the data the ASC students provided.