Earnings growth slowed or declined in 2007 among workers at most education levels, while falling sharply from the prior year for men with only a high school degree, according to figures released April 27, 2009 by the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau.
Among all full- and part-time workers ages 18 and older, those with a bachelor’s degree earned $25,895, or 83% more per year than workers with a high school diploma, about the same difference as in 2006, the agency said in releasing annual data on educational attainment of the U.S. population.
