7/30/2019 Illinois's 33%: Lifetime Earnings by Educational Attainment

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Over their lifetimes, Illinoisans who drop out of high school makehundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars less than their

graduating and higher-educated peers.

Sum, A., & Khatiwada, I. (2012, November). High school dropouts in Chicago and Illinois and theirpersistent labor market problems. Chicago: Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University.Refects 18 to 64 year olds.

No highschooldiploma

$574,000

GED orequivalent

Regularhigh

school

diploma

Somecollege

Associatesdegree

$832,000

$1,093,000

$1,323,000

$1,501,000

$2,426,000

Bachelorsdegree

Mastersdegree or

higher

$3,389,000

Lifetime Earnings