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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.
If your programming skills are very good, then there are jobs in quantititative finance. The typical salaries start at $100K-$120K, but usually go up to about $200K with three to five years of experience. The one catch is that you have to move to NYC. The other thing about finance is that the glass ceiling is extremely high.