Travel Time Compensation and Overtime. 1  A non-exempt, hourly employee who is compensated for travel time in connection with any of the scenarios noted on this Hourly Travel page will be paid at his/her normal wage rate.
A: As of 2014, the average starting salary for someone with a finance degree is $57,300. This figure makes a finance degree the eighth most valuable college degree and the only one associated with high entry level pay rates not in a tech field.
Areas with high populations offer more job opportunities for finance graduates as well as better salaries. For example, California, the most populous state in the union, has the highest salaries at a median $62,680 per year. It is followed by New York at $60,412 annually and Illinois at $55,604 yearly.