US starting salaries

From the Kids Prefer Cheese blog we get the following graphic on the average starting salaries by major taken at university for the US. Economics comes in at number 4, but bad news for philosophy majors though. I wonder how different is the situation in New Zealand?


One question is what does the list tell us about the skills required in the modern economy. In particular what do we learn from the top three? All three are basically quantitative, logical and analytical. There looks to be an advantage to critical thinking and problem solving and to some degree being able to do data analysis.