Blog Archive B-School Chart of the Week How Much Does B-School Boost Your Salary

Blog Archive B-School Chart of the Week How Much Does B-School Boost Your Salary Although quantifying a school’s profile certainly does not tell you everything, it can sometimes be helpful in simplifying the many differences between the various MBA programs. Each week, we bring you a chart to help you decide which of the schools’ strengths speak to you. A question that might keep prospective MBAs up at night is what they can expect in the way of a return on their business school investment. One way to assuage those fears is to size up your current salary against what business schools report as their graduates’ post-MBA incomes. At one of Bloomberg Businessweek’s top-ten MBA programs, at least, the payoff looks enticingâ€"with an average income boost of 33%â€"83% (excluding signing and performance bonuses, which can drive compensation even higher). In recent years, economic turmoil has pushed percentile incomesâ€"namely “the 1%” and “the 99%”â€"to the fore of the public imagination. Highlighting the impact of the MBA, we thought taking a look at the median graduate’s pre-MBA and post-MBA percentile incomes, illustrated in the graph below, might be interesting. Although most MBAs will fall short of the “1%” straight out of business school, the typical MBA from one of these top-ten schools  can expect to leap into the top quintile in society with their first post-graduation position, earning more than 83 out of 100 others. With a degree in hand (and with plenty of hard work, of course), the median 29-year-old MBA will climb the income pyramid to join “the 16.8%.” Share ThisTweet B-School Charts