That's an average, I wonder the mean, maybe there are many lawyer whales pushing up the numbers.
There's an initial peak for all the regular run-of-the-mill lawyers that toil away doing most of the work, and there are a small subset that make absolute _bank_.
So essentially, there's not as many lawyers making the mean salary as you would expect compared to a job like software developer.
My first programming job was a part time position for a small group of programmers. There weren't more than 8 of us. Without taking on more clients or raising prices, there wasn't really a feasible way to get me to full-time. To get more clients also means that there are also more employees needed. We were all fine with the arrangement.
Their whole rationale was to get students a position for hands on experience completing actual projects for clients. You were welcome to stay on after graduation, but the expectation was that you'd leverage the experience on your resume to get a better paying job that was full-time. This fits the bill for the blurred line between dead end job and skilled labor. If I didn't leave (and they were alright with it), my room for growth would have been small barring the owners landing some huge contract that rapidly expanded their business.
Add a towing/impound license, insurance, land on top of that and it’s reasonable to conclude that some people would be better off driving for someone else than forcing everyone who wanted to be a tow truck driver to open a towing business.
How many people are in a "dead end" job to make money while still in college?
What areas and colleges can you pay all of your tuition, books, and fees while working in one of these jobs?
What can you do in high school to minimize the time spent at the 'dead end job' level?
What percentage of 'dead end' job employees are the second breadwinner in a household? What percentage are the primary? And finally what percentage are the only breadwinner in the household?
What characterizes "good mobility" (moving from one job to a better job) versus "bad mobility" (being unable to change jobs) and what public policies would encourage for more mobility?
I wonder if that is because of demographic changes in San Francisco, or because high schoolers have better opportunities now. Such as internships at the science museum or STEM companies. Or maybe there are other cafes or service jobs high schoolers prefer.
Thoughts??
When the farm worker is under paid, the farmer is the one that reaps the profits.
Not sure that really is as satisfying as I think it will be.
This grammar is killing the legitimacy of this article...
https://www.zippia.com/advice/best-colleges-for-jobs/
Somehow, I rather doubt that Santa Clara University has better employment outcomes than Stanford, Berkeley, and UCLA. Or that Assumption College does better than Harvard or MIT. Or The College of New Jersey than Princeton. And so on. And a quick look at the data sources they cite doesn't reveal the employment data, though I'm only searching very lazily...
Article really glosses over the fact that there aren't really all that many skills to be learned at most low paying dead end jobs. That's why they're unskilled, require no education, and pay poorly, as there's always a glut of people willing and able to do them. Supply and demand.
