Every year, the University of Michigan publishes a survey of salaries for its Engineering graduates: http://career.engin.umich.edu/salary/ http://career.engin.

Every year, the University of Michigan publishes a survey of salaries for its Engineering graduates: http://career.engin.umich.edu/salary/ http://career.engin.umich.edu/salary/ Average annual full-time salaries for computer science graduates finishing in the 2007-2008 school year, by degree: Bachelors - $73,761 Masters - $79,762 PhD - $103,740 All of these amounts are up from the previous year. Caveats: the sample size is small, it's a top Research I University in Engineering, and participation is on a volunteer basis, so the participants may self-select in certain unknown ways. Also, the most recent survey is from the class that graduated in April, which was before many of the scary economic things began happening.