http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pay-you-back/bachelors http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pa... #11 Physics &

http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pay-you-back/bachelors http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pa... #11 Physics & Mathematics $56,200 starting, $111,000 mid-career Compare that to Computer Science # 5 Computer Science (CS) & Engineering, starting $71,200, mid-career $116,000 Also, I work with and have interviewed many people with physics and math degrees. Granted, there's some sampling bias going on there. But the ones I know didn't really have prospects actually using their degrees in their respective fields unless they got a phd and went into academia. So they all went into tech one way or another.