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| Year | # of jobs | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 514 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 566 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 603 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | 560 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 560 | 0.00% |
| Year | Avg. salary | Hourly rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $55,598 | $26.73 | +2.3% |
| 2024 | $54,350 | $26.13 | +3.5% |
| 2023 | $52,495 | $25.24 | +3.1% |
| 2022 | $50,937 | $24.49 | --1.1% |
| 2021 | $51,494 | $24.76 | +1.0% |
| Rank | State | Population | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 81 | 12% |
| 2 | Vermont | 623,657 | 54 | 9% |
| 3 | West Virginia | 1,815,857 | 102 | 6% |
| 4 | Virginia | 8,470,020 | 398 | 5% |
| 5 | Colorado | 5,607,154 | 301 | 5% |
| 6 | Oregon | 4,142,776 | 220 | 5% |
| 7 | Nebraska | 1,920,076 | 89 | 5% |
| 8 | South Dakota | 869,666 | 46 | 5% |
| 9 | Alaska | 739,795 | 34 | 5% |
| 10 | New York | 19,849,399 | 796 | 4% |
| 11 | Utah | 3,101,833 | 138 | 4% |
| 12 | Mississippi | 2,984,100 | 118 | 4% |
| 13 | Rhode Island | 1,059,639 | 39 | 4% |
| 14 | Pennsylvania | 12,805,537 | 429 | 3% |
| 15 | New Jersey | 9,005,644 | 266 | 3% |
| 16 | Wisconsin | 5,795,483 | 173 | 3% |
| 17 | Kentucky | 4,454,189 | 154 | 3% |
| 18 | Louisiana | 4,684,333 | 148 | 3% |
| 19 | Minnesota | 5,576,606 | 141 | 3% |
| 20 | Maine | 1,335,907 | 41 | 3% |
| Rank | City | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Angeles | 1 | 0% | $74,859 |
| 2 | San Jose | 1 | 0% | $79,363 |
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Religion/Religious Studies
Professor Isaac Weiner: Thanks for your inquiry. I actually don't have much information about job opportunities or workplace status for religion grads.
Rev. Tamara Lewis PhD: The best advice I would have for recent graduates is to be optimistic about job opportunities. By having an open- minded outlook, there are numerous careers that are well- suited for the knowledge and training they bring. Graduates should be confident about their exposure to contemporary global settings. Their educational background makes them particularly attractive to employers for positions in the government sector at local, state, federal, and international levels. Any job in which people of diverse racial, ethnic, sociocultural, religious, and political backgrounds come together benefit from religious majors in positions of leadership. This is due to the political and economic disputes among nations today that are often deeply affected by underlying religious conflict. Religious majors have been trained to deal specifically with these kinds of challenges. Through studies in comparative religion, they understand significant differences among major world religions, like Christianity and Islam, as well as smaller religious groups like Jainists or Daoists. They also have understanding regarding sects and cults, some of which may be militant or incendiary in certain settings. Therefore, the special skills that these individuals bring should make them confident and motivated when seeking and entering new employment. What they have to offer is extremely important.
Dr. Rebecca Peters Ph.D.: Students who major in many liberal arts disciplines are gaining enduring intellectual skills that enable them to function as nimble actors in the working world. As such, Religious Studies majors, like many liberal arts majors aren’t preparing for work in “a” professional field, they are preparing to be agile workers, managers, leaders, and thinkers who can move into any numbers of professional fields. The skills that are necessary in the workplace in the next 3-5 years include increased awareness and understanding of racial, cultural, and ethnic differences and diversity, including knowledge of the role and complexity of religion in the world.
Dr. Rebecca Peters Ph.D.: The primary skills that Religious Studies majors acquire in their undergraduate programs are research skills, critical thinking, critical reading, crafting arguments, and engaging in logic and reason all skills that are imminently transferable to any job on the market. Remember to highlight and discuss how you can use these skills in job that you apply for. And, of course, understanding the role and complexity of religion in a diverse world in an incalculable skill in a diverse work environment and can be an advantage in many fields.
Dr. Melissa Conroy: Religion is a highly topical subject. The study of religion is a good asset for anyone working in fields where appreciation of diversity and religious differences are valued.