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.
This was up from $51,700 in 2011, a salary increase of 2.1 percent. Half of all students graduating with a bachelor's in finance reported starting salaries ranging from $40,800 to $62,000 per year. According to NACE, finance majors hired in the manufacturing industry earned a high average starting salary of $54,300.