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Foster MBA Salary Job Function & Industry (2017)

The $130k to $150k range mean total salary makes the program favorable in the tier-2 category and therefore earning the candidates the best increase in salary. Largely, the cost of the program offsets the increase in salary. For the latest class, students entering consulting (by industry and job function) received the best return on their investment. Marketing/Sales, the favorite among the MBA class was not far behind ($110,186 mean base salary).

Foster MBA Salary by Job Function
 
Since the individual bonus is not published, we used the average signing bonus for the entire class in place of salary data for each job function and industry. In general, Finance as an industry and function receives a much higher bonus payment than we have estimated above.

Foster MBA Salary by Industry
 
As an industry, Technology attracted more than half of the class. The demand is in correlation with the 140,000 ICT companies in the state. Consulting was a distant second (23%) while Financial Services only registered a 6% representation for the latest Foster MBA Class.

Reference: Foster MBA Employment Report

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