Employment Statistics

• Workforce Survey of 2021 US AAS members, Summary Results — From the AAS Demographics Committee
• Physics and Astronomy Faculty Member Salaries, 2021 — From the AIP Statistical Research Center
• Faculty Job Market in Physics and Astronomy Departments — Results from the 2018 Academic Workforce Survey (AIP Statistical Research Center)
• Roster of Astronomy Departments with Enrollment and Degree Data — Results from the 2020 Survey of Enrollments and Degrees (AIP Statistical Research Center)
• NSF Science and Engineering Statistics — Long term data on federal research funding, student and workforce demographics, public attitudes and understanding, industry, and more.
• Identifying Career Paths for PhDs in Science from September, 2016.
• AIP article "Astronomy Degree Recipients Initial Employment" from April, 2015.
• AIP report "Physics Bachelors: One Year After Degree" from September, 2016.
• The Production Rate and Employment of PhD Astronomers — A paper about the astronomy job market, originally presented at the summer 2007 AAS meeting.
• Downloadable PDF with statistics for STEM — The Nonacademic Careers of STEM PhD Holders by Turk-Bickard, Berger and Haxton