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Each year America.edu ranks the best paying college degrees in America. The following data show the median starting salary, the mid-career salary, and the percentage increase from starting salary to mid-career salary for the  college degrees with the highest mid-career salary (America.edu website).

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Degree	Starting Salary	Mid-Career Salary		% Increase
Aerospace engineering	59,400	108,000		82
Applied mathematics	56,400	101,000		79
Biomedical engineering	54,800	101,000		84
Chemical engineering	64,800	108,000		67
Civil engineering	53,500	93,400		75
Computer engineering	61,200	87,700		43
Computer science	56,200	97,700		74
Construction Management	50,400	87,000		73
Economics	48,800	97,800		100
Electrical engineering	60,800	104,000		71
Finance	47,500	91,500		93
Government	41,500	88,300		113
Information systems	49,300	87,100		77
Management info. systems	50,900	90,300		77
Mathematics	46,400	88,300		90
Nuclear engineering	63,900	104,000		63
Petroleum engineering	93,000	157,000		69
Physics	50,700	99,600		96
Software engineering	56,700	91,300		61
Statistics	50,000	93,400		87

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