Earning a competitive salary is often the bottom line (pun intended) – for college graduates, especially in a city like Chicago, where there is so much city to take advantage of (see #8 and #9 for ideas).
According to local colleges and universities, the median starting salary for business undergraduates finding work in Chicago was in the range of $50,000 to $55,000,which compares favorably to national data collected by BusinessWeek and the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Chicago also has one of the top median salaries among undergraduate business degree holders of cities surveyed, according to Payscale.com.
