Women’s enrollment and degrees conferred in geoscientific areas
AGI’s Workforce team have examined data about degrees conferred to women in the areas of atmospheric science, geography, geoscience/geology, and ocean science to see if those data match earlier findings that female enrollments and awarded degrees in the geosciences have decreased. Read more here.
Increase in geoscience enrollments
New data indicate that geoscience undergraduate enrollment levels in 2011-2012 are higher than 2010-2011. 44% more Masters degrees in geoscience were awarded in 2011-2012. Read the full report from American Geosciences Institute here.
Median Salaries for Geoscience-related Careers
Do you know that the wage packets of people in geoscience-related careers are fuller than all other Life, Physical, and Social Science employees?
Read more about how well compensated you are/can be in the Earth and space sciences! Thanks to the Workforce staff at the American Geosciences Institute for preparing this analysis!
Occupational Employment and Wages
Want to know how much you can make as a geoscientist? The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) regularly compiles and publishes data and estimates.
Find out the current salary and employment estimates for
You can read how the BLS project demand for people with Earth and space science training will grow here.
You can find out much more about the Occupational Employment Statistics program here.
Most professional geoscientists will retire within fifteen years or sooner. AGI’s Geoscience Currents March issue examines the demographic changes in academia and in federal government. Learn more about the shifts in professorships and the static number of early-career geoscientists under 40 years old.
Earth and Space Science Workforce Research
The American Geological Institute’s Workforce Program has issued information about women’s participation in geoscience occupations. Though more women are getting geoscience degrees, women’s presence in the geoscience workforce isn’t catching up. As this bulletin states, “the percentage of women in environmental science and geoscience occupations has not exceeded 30 percent since 2003.” Read the bulletin for more data and comparison graphs (PDF).
Following on from its report on women’s participation in Earth and space sciences, AGI’s workforce program has issued a bulletin (PDF) on underrepresented minorities in the Earth and space science occupations.
Surveys of Recent Ph.D. Graduates
AGU regularly collaborates with American Geological Institute (AGI) to produce studies documenting employment patterns and demographic characteristics of recent Ph.D.s.
- Class of 2006 (PDF)
- Class of 2003 (PDF)
- Class of 2002 (PDF)
- Class of 2001 (PDF)
- Class of 2000 (PDF)
- Class of 1999 (PDF)
Surveys of Recent Masters Graduates
AGU and AGI expanded the survey of the class of 2006 to include data about masters recipients.
- Class of 2006 (PDF)
From 2008 to 2009 salaries in the geosciences increased by 3.1% which is 1 percent more than for occupations in other sciences. Read more in AGI’s latest workforce bulletin.