Community and Social Service Specialists
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Overview
All community and social service specialists not listed separately.
Highlights
Undergraduate program resulting in the highest median salary ($57K): Nursing
Largest undergraduate program (8.4% of workers): Psychology
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Salary
Median salary: $46,770 annually
Half of those employed in this career earn between $35,970 and $60,470.
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Salary growth for community and social service specialists
Is this job likely to reward you for sticking with it through pay raises and promotions? The higher a job’s “experience quotient,” the more you are likely to get as you stay there.
Experience quotient percentile
Take a minute to look at how much you might expect your salary to increase with each five years' experience, as well as how the numbers working at each age change. Does this seem to be a job for the young or the old, or could it be a career offering steady salary growth for many years?
Salary distribution
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About Community and Social Service Specialists
How do benefits for this career compare to other jobs? The availability of health care, especially employer provided health care, and pension plans can add significantly to the value of compensation you receive in a career. These charts compare how this career compares to other careers with regard to health care and pension plans.
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Education pathways to this career
Education attained by community and social service specialists
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), community and social service specialists typically hold a bachelor's degree.
Sometimes the typical education identified by the BLS differs a bit from the reality of the how much education current workers actually have. The donut shows the education level held by people currently working as community and social service specialists as reported in responses to the American Community Survey.
Education level of Community and Social Service Specialists
About 58% of community and social service specialists have at least a bachelor's degree.
Education attained by community and social service specialists
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Top college degrees
Here are the top college degrees held by the 57% of people in this job who have at least a bachelor's degree. Some of degrees may link to multiple programs due to the way Census classifies college majors. Click on a program to learn more about career opportunities for people who major in that field.
  1. Psychology
  2. Political Science and Government
  3. Business Management and Administration
  4. Sociology
  5. Communications
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College majors held by community and social service specialists
This table shows the college majors held by people working as community and social service specialists. If you see "**" before the name of a degree/program, that means this field is one that the Department of Education believes is preparatory for this career. However, you can see from this list that those recommendations are far from your only path to this job!
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Programs recommended by the Department of Education
The Department of Education recommends the following college degree programs as preparation for this career. You can click a program row to learn more about the program and explore a list of schools that offer the program.
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The link between degrees and this career
With the following sankey diagram, you can follow the top ten bachelor's degrees held by people working as community and social service specialists, and then, in turn, you can see the 10 occupations that hire the most of each degree's graduates. We hope this provides ideas for similar jobs and similar fields of study.
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Where are the jobs
State-by-state employment numbers
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Number of Community and Social Service Specialists per 1,000 workers (ACS)
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Job density versus job count
Which states hire the most community and social service specialists? We wonder if that's a fair question since states come in all sizes, so instead let's start with the question of which states have the highest density of people working as community and social service specialists. You can choose to view the number of jobs per state if you prefer.
Salaries by state
Let's get a feel for where community and social service specialists earn the highest salaries. There are several choices for which data we consider and how we view that data, and each can lead to different conclusions, so please read on...
Median salary versus state ratio
We use two methods to compare salaries across states:
  • In-state comparisons: the ratio of median (middle) salaries for community and social service specialists compared to the median salary for all people working in each state, or
  • Median salary: the unaltered median salaries for community and social service specialists.
We hope the ratio allows perspective about how salaries may compare to the regional cost-of-living.
The darkest shading corresponds to states in which community and social service specialists earn the highest salary when compared to other jobs in the state. We think this figure might be a better indicator than the actual salary for your buying power as a state resident.
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Location-adjusted median salary for Community and Social Service Specialists (ACS for all specialties)
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Employment
18% of Community and social service specialists are working part time.
We’ve found that some jobs have a huge number of part-time workers, and typically that is because they are unable to find full-time work or the job itself can’t provide full-time hours. With 18% part-time workers, this occupation has a higher percentage of part-time workers than 63% of careers.
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Employer types
This donut shares the break-down of workers by employer type, giving us a picture of what employers most typically hire for this career.
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Distribution: Salaries of community and social service specialists by type of employer
Here are the salary distributions based on employer type.
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Gender
Community and social service specialists and gender
With 65% women, this occupation has a higher percentage of women than 78% of careers.
Gender of Community and social service specialists
Men (35%)
Women (65%)
Distribution: salaries by gender
Does gender greatly influence your salary in this career? The closer the bars are, the less discrepancy there is.
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Context: Women in the workforce
How does this career compare to other careers with regard to the percentage of women in the career.
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Context: Salary inequity
The median salary for all full-time male workers in the US exceeds the full-time median salary for women by 19%. The situation is a little better for community and social service specialists, with the median salary for men 15% higher than the median salary for women.
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Race/Origin
Race and origin of Community and social service specialists
This donut shows the distribution of race and origin among those employed as Community and social service specialists.
Race/origin of community and social service specialists
White (65% )
Black (21% )
Asian (4% )
Other (4% )
Multiracial (3% )
American Indian (3% )
Hispanic (1% )
Pacific Islander (0% )
Distribution: salaries by race/origin
Some careers might have a pay disparity based on race or origin, the closer the below bars are the less of a discrepancy is present.
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We only include salary data when the survey error is less than 20%, so you may see only partial information for some categories.