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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.
Range of Starting Finance Salaries. Finance majors received the highest salaries of any business discipline, averaging $57,300 per year to start, according to the January 2013 salary survey produced by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. The lowest-earning quartile of finance majors made less than $44,000 annually, while the highest-paid received over $66,800. Their starting salary was greater than the mean annual $53,900 per year earned by the average business graduate, and more than the mean $44,482 yearly made by all college graduates.