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| Year | # of jobs | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 11 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 11 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | 16 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 13 | 0.00% |
| Year | Avg. salary | Hourly rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $58,956 | $28.34 | +3.4% |
| 2024 | $57,013 | $27.41 | +2.3% |
| 2023 | $55,723 | $26.79 | +2.0% |
| 2022 | $54,636 | $26.27 | +2.3% |
| 2021 | $53,402 | $25.67 | +1.5% |
| Rank | State | Population | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 150 | 22% |
| 2 | Rhode Island | 1,059,639 | 64 | 6% |
| 3 | Massachusetts | 6,859,819 | 328 | 5% |
| 4 | Virginia | 8,470,020 | 366 | 4% |
| 5 | Maryland | 6,052,177 | 220 | 4% |
| 6 | Oregon | 4,142,776 | 157 | 4% |
| 7 | Utah | 3,101,833 | 127 | 4% |
| 8 | Vermont | 623,657 | 24 | 4% |
| 9 | California | 39,536,653 | 1,119 | 3% |
| 10 | New York | 19,849,399 | 569 | 3% |
| 11 | Illinois | 12,802,023 | 353 | 3% |
| 12 | New Jersey | 9,005,644 | 278 | 3% |
| 13 | Washington | 7,405,743 | 198 | 3% |
| 14 | Minnesota | 5,576,606 | 192 | 3% |
| 15 | Nebraska | 1,920,076 | 57 | 3% |
| 16 | New Hampshire | 1,342,795 | 41 | 3% |
| 17 | Montana | 1,050,493 | 29 | 3% |
| 18 | Pennsylvania | 12,805,537 | 299 | 2% |
| 19 | Arizona | 7,016,270 | 127 | 2% |
| 20 | Nevada | 2,998,039 | 58 | 2% |
| Rank | City | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frankfort | 2 | 7% | $48,471 |
| 2 | Juneau | 2 | 6% | $85,539 |
| 3 | Annapolis | 2 | 5% | $60,609 |
| 4 | Dover | 1 | 3% | $64,346 |
| 5 | Lansing | 2 | 2% | $54,075 |
| 6 | Baton Rouge | 2 | 1% | $55,353 |
| 7 | Des Moines | 2 | 1% | $49,960 |
| 8 | Little Rock | 2 | 1% | $55,228 |
| 9 | Hartford | 1 | 1% | $63,037 |
| 10 | Atlanta | 2 | 0% | $43,361 |
| 11 | Boston | 2 | 0% | $53,873 |
| 12 | Indianapolis | 2 | 0% | $48,809 |
| 13 | Washington | 2 | 0% | $61,068 |
| 14 | Los Angeles | 1 | 0% | $95,960 |
| 15 | Montgomery | 1 | 0% | $58,360 |
| 16 | New York | 1 | 0% | $66,617 |
| 17 | Phoenix | 1 | 0% | $80,711 |
| 18 | Sacramento | 1 | 0% | $108,035 |
University of Cincinnati
Chris Carter: I would recommend playing up their value as critical analysts and researchers who can synthesize information in accessible ways. I would tell them to be open to all kinds of writing opportunities, whether technical, journalistic, or editorial, watching for possibilities in online and print venues alike. English majors' detective skills suit them well to museums and libraries, but also to private and governmental organizations that need shrewd investigators. Turning interpretive savvy into pithy prose and presentations can be great for public relations, and a penchant for lucid communication can set graduates up for podcasting and social media management. Some people might turn those talents toward careers in law or marketing. Others might continue their paths as creative writers and cultural critics, though it's worth noting that full-time, tenure-track jobs in English Departments are hard to come by.
Chris Carter: With the rise of ChatGPT and large language models, English majors will need to clarify how human writers, editors, and analysts can enrich machine-generated content. They do well to practice prompt engineering and gradual conditioning of machine responses, but they also need to be diligent readers who can spot bad AI syntheses. This means correcting faulty information stemming from data aggregation, for sure, but also spotting cultural biases that machines replicate when drawing on preexisting texts. Those texts carry with them the values and assumptions of the people who initially produced them, with ChatGPT reflecting and potentially amplifying the inequities that plague human cultures. The need for ethical intervention is quite urgent, then, and that's where English majors tend to excel. Such intervention will concern not only the accuracy and political tilt of information, but the question of whose language and style count as standard. Writing technologies have always been bound up with power relations. DEI-oriented humanists and English majors will have plenty of opportunities to address those problems as AI becomes more embedded in workplaces and public institutions.