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| Year | # of jobs | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 594 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 578 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 606 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | 568 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 538 | 0.00% |
| Year | Avg. salary | Hourly rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $69,992 | $33.65 | +3.2% |
| 2025 | $67,797 | $32.59 | +1.6% |
| 2024 | $66,761 | $32.10 | +0.3% |
| 2023 | $66,560 | $32.00 | +3.0% |
| 2022 | $64,631 | $31.07 | +0.1% |
| Rank | State | Population | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Dakota | 869,666 | 162 | 19% |
| 2 | Maine | 1,335,907 | 200 | 15% |
| 3 | Alabama | 4,874,747 | 530 | 11% |
| 4 | Oklahoma | 3,930,864 | 432 | 11% |
| 5 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 67 | 10% |
| 6 | Mississippi | 2,984,100 | 261 | 9% |
| 7 | Vermont | 623,657 | 34 | 5% |
| 8 | Oregon | 4,142,776 | 146 | 4% |
| 9 | Massachusetts | 6,859,819 | 221 | 3% |
| 10 | Minnesota | 5,576,606 | 144 | 3% |
| 11 | Utah | 3,101,833 | 78 | 3% |
| 12 | New Hampshire | 1,342,795 | 44 | 3% |
| 13 | Rhode Island | 1,059,639 | 34 | 3% |
| 14 | Montana | 1,050,493 | 27 | 3% |
| 15 | California | 39,536,653 | 848 | 2% |
| 16 | New York | 19,849,399 | 427 | 2% |
| 17 | New Jersey | 9,005,644 | 216 | 2% |
| 18 | Washington | 7,405,743 | 135 | 2% |
| 19 | Kansas | 2,913,123 | 55 | 2% |
| 20 | Idaho | 1,716,943 | 29 | 2% |
| Rank | City | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newport | 1 | 4% | $62,847 |
Duke University
Duke University
Department of Political Science
Michael Munger: Political science is an ancient career synergy, one that explores the connections between ethical considerations and engineering policy that works. Someone who majors in Political Science is able to make arguments about the questions that have plagued philosophers for thousands of years while using the latest data techniques to scrape online sources of information on social media. So political science instructors have to combine ethics, knowledge of esoteric procedures and laws, and statistics!