The Collegiate Employment Research Institute (CERI) generated this sample from employers currently seeking college talent through their interactions with college and university career services offices. Nearly 200 career service centers from around the country invited their employers to participate in this study. Approximately 4,350 employers provided information useful for understanding recruiting trends and practices. CERI uses information provided by those recruiting talent for full time positions, internships, and co-ops for these research briefs. This brief focuses on starting salaries, and respondents report that they will increase starting salaries by more than 4 percent. What is more impressive is that 48 percent of respondents will be raising salaries (up 9 percentage points this year). Starting salaries by academic major for which sufficient data was available have been trending upward during the past three years. Salaries for some majors for which sufficient observations are not available to provide stable data may appear to be drifting up and down. Please note that the figures provided have not been adjusted for inflation. The average starting salaries reflect base salary only and do not include commissions, stipends, bonuses, housing and moving allowances, or other incentives. Starting salaries have been broken out in several ways so that the reader can see how sector and organization size influence starting salaries. The academic major list contains degrees with sufficient reported salary offers to provide solid salary evidence.