Business
What you can do with Human Resources
The people side of business: hiring, development, and building workplaces that work.
- Careers
- 3
- Early career
- $56,000
- Mid-career
- $82,000
- Growing fast
- 3 of 3
How these numbers work: A major does not have its own salary. Early and mid-career pay is what people who hold this degree earn at the start of their careers and midway through them. Career pay comes from the 3 careers a Human Resources degree commonly leads to, and counts everyone in those jobs, including people who have been doing them for thirty years. The two answer different questions, which is why they do not match.
The New York Fed does not report Human Resources on its own. Its early and mid-career figures here are for Business Management, the broader group it places this major in.
3 of 3 careers this degree leads to are projected to grow faster than average from 2024 to 2034. Of those, Human Resources Specialist has the most openings, about 81,800 a year.
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3 careers this degree leads to
Industrial-Organizational Psychologist
$193,950Apply psychology to the workplace: hiring, leadership, motivation, and how organizations perform.
- Middle half of workers
- $107,310 to $222,280
- Growth
- Faster than average
- Openings a year
- 400
Work-life56Remote58- Assessment Design
- Organizational Research
- Statistics
- Consulting
Human Resources Specialist
$75,940Recruit, screen, and place people, and keep the employment machinery of an organization running fairly.
- Middle half of workers
- $58,610 to $99,380
- Growth
- Faster than average
- Openings a year
- 81,800
Work-life70Remote68- Recruiting
- Interviewing
- Employment Law Basics
- Communication
Training and Development Specialist
$69,280Design and deliver the programs that help employees learn new skills and organizations perform better.
- Middle half of workers
- $50,110 to $95,050
- Growth
- Much faster than average
- Openings a year
- 43,900
Work-life59Remote62- Instructional Design
- Facilitation
- Learning Strategies
- Speaking
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Where these pay figures come from
Early and mid-career pay is the median annual wage of full-time workers who hold a bachelor's degree in that major, ages 22 to 27 and ages 35 to 45, from 2024 data. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (IPUMS). Published as Outcomes by Major by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Career pay is the annual wage of everyone working in that occupation, not only recent graduates, so it includes people who have done the job for decades. The middle half is the 25th to the 75th percentile. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET OnLine (median and percentile annual wages May 2025; employment projections 2024-2034).
All figures are national. What you earn depends on where you work, who you work for, and how far you take the degree.