[harpu]

The demonRATs gotta hate little tidbits of positive news like this leaking out to the uninformed masses.

[Mini-14]

This is encouraging. Hopefully recent graduates who don't get offers in their first year following graduation won't be viewed as "damaged goods" by potential employers.

[q_an_a]

anyone want to guess what the starting salary is for the class of 2004? here is the class of 2002 as a comparison.

Salary Information: High: $82,000 Low: $22,000 Mean:$58,671 Median: $55,000 Mode: $55,000.

I would say that this author didn't do much research as they cried poor mouth for this article. OH one other point two surveys had one cavet, "this does not include signing bonus!! I recall my first job and it didn't ahve a signing bonus.

Take a look at what the KIDS graduating from MIT earn and you would think that they all had ten years on the job. Most start above the best on the factory floor at GM or Ford. The low is in the 40s and the high is over 100K.

It looks to me that the world is coming to an end, that the papers are reproting it, but they left out a few details.