{"id":13764,"date":"2018-05-15T13:39:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=13764"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T18:33:34","slug":"2018-employment-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=13764","title":{"rendered":"2018 Employment Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"..\/?page_id=248\">employment report<\/a> for the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2018 is now available. The Class of 2018, which achieved a placement rate of 95% by graduation, recorded the highest average base salary in the history of the MSA program: $98,200 (up from $95,100 for the Class of 2017). The median base salary for the class was $95,000; the median for students with prior work experience was $105,000. The ROI payback period is estimated to be 20 months on average. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Other highlights of the 2018 report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>156 employers conducted 1,353 initial interviews;<\/li>\n<li>68 employers made a total of 310 offers of employment;<\/li>\n<li>49 employers \u2013 with 19 first-time employers \u2013 succeeded in hiring one or more candidates;<\/li>\n<li>19 employers hired 2 or more candidates;<\/li>\n<li>45% are employed in North Carolina;<\/li>\n<li>100% are employed in the U.S.;<\/li>\n<li>91% of students were placed with the assistance of the Institute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The employment report for the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2018 is now available. The Class of 2018, which achieved a placement rate of 95% by graduation, recorded the highest average base salary in the history of the MSA program: $98,200 (up from $95,100 for the Class of 2017). The median base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13764"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25836,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764\/revisions\/25836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}