I expect that there are a lot of other factors that would predict future earnings better than major. Plenty of people get degrees in philosophy or English with

I expect that there are a lot of other factors that would predict future earnings better than major. Plenty of people get degrees in philosophy or English with the intention of following it with law school. On the other hand, plenty of people major in English because they don't know what they want to do, or because they're actually majoring in football. How many people just fall into engineering or CS? Probably not as many as fall into anthro. My guess is, the people who value making a lot of money and who major in English do just fine for themselves, the people who lack drive and ambition who major in English work at McDonald's, and the people who major in humanities because they value things besides money live in an artists' commune in Brooklyn making art and music and not really caring that they're not making as much money as you are.