These Are The 10 Best First Jobs For Economics Majors

That’s right Econ Majors: if you want to make the big bucks and have a fair amount of growth in your future career, you might want to look into these jobs. In the next section, we’ll get more into our methodology.

How We Determined The Best Jobs For Econ Majors

We know that your education, skills, and interest levels have a whole lot to do with what you want to do in your career. That’s why we’ve taken these things into consideration when creating our lists! We've amassed a collection of over 3 million resumes from real people, like you, across the country. This includes over 30,000 people that graduated with an economics degree.

From there, we needed to decide what exactly makes the best job the best job for Econ Majors. We settled on these criteria:

• Availability (More common is better)
• Average Salary (Higher paying is better)
• Potential For Growth (High growth potential is better)
• Job Security (More job security is better)

We then looked at the 50 most common jobs for Econ Majors right out of school, and ranked them all with scores from 1 to 50 in the above criteria, where the lowest scores were the best.

Next, we averaged the rankings for each to create a Best Job Index.

And finally, we crowned the place with the lowest Best Job Index as the “Best Job for Economics Majors Right out of College.” That honor went to the future Product Managers of the world.