Employment Statistics

• AIP Statistical Research Center — A great source for data on education and employment in physics, astronomy, and allied fields.
• NSF Science and Engineering Statistics — Long term data on federal research funding, student and workforce demographics, public attitudes and understanding, industry, and more.
• NAS Career Reports — Publications for career planning, doctoral program trends and rankings, ethics, and women in science.
• Survey Points to Mismatch Between PhD Students, Their Programs, and Their Potential Employers
• AIP article "Astronomy Degree Recipients Initial Employment" from April, 2015.
• AIP report "Physics Bachelors: One Year After Degree" from Sept., 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