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.
Graduating with a Master's Degree. Undergraduates could spend an extra two years of study to obtain a masterâs degree in finance to earn a higher starting salary of about $64,300 per year. The lowest-earning quartile of master's degree graduates made less than $50,600 yearly, while the highest earners received over $73,000.