It is not uncommon for departments to provide placement information for the graduate students that have completed their program. I've never seen salary informat

It is not uncommon for departments to provide placement information for the graduate students that have completed their program. I've never seen salary information though. No one goes into academia for the money. The University of Michigan has a really nice online tool: https://tableau.dsc.umich.edu/t/UM-Public/views/RackhamDoctoralProgramStatistics/ProgramStatistics https://tableau.dsc.umich.edu/t/UM-Public/views/RackhamDocto... According to that 22% of history grad students from 2015-2020 got tenure track positions. That's quite a crapshoot for investing 5+ years in a career path. And of course you could fall off the tenure track. And Michigan has a top history program.