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title: "What can you do with a communications and journalism degree?"
description: "15 careers communications and journalism graduates commonly move into, with BLS median pay, projected growth and entry requirements for each."
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# What can you do with a communications and journalism degree?

**What the degree involves:** Reporting, media law and ethics, editing, and production work with hard deadlines.

Far more communications graduates end up in public relations, marketing and content than in newsrooms, which is worth knowing before you choose. The portfolio you build outside class decides which half of this list you reach more than your transcript does.

15 common destinations, ordered most common first rather than highest paid first. 0 of 15 have a master's or a doctoral or professional degree as their BLS typical entry education, and 12 of 15 are projected to grow. A major is a body of study, not a job assignment: these are destinations of people who took the degree, not what the degree entitles anyone to.

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected change | Openings a year | Typical entry education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Public Relations Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/public-relations-specialist) | $74,750 | +4.8% | 27,600 | Bachelor's |
| 2 | [Market Research Analyst and Marketing Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/market-research-analyst-and-marketing-specialist) | $78,760 | +6.7% | 87,200 | Bachelor's |
| 3 | Writer and Author | $76,910 | +3.6% | 13,400 | Bachelor's |
| 4 | Editor | $77,920 | +0.6% | 9,800 | Bachelor's |
| 5 | News Analyst, Reporter, and Journalist | $62,200 | -3.9% | 4,100 | Bachelor's |
| 6 | Technical Writer | $90,390 | +0.9% | 4,500 | Bachelor's |
| 7 | [Search Marketing Strategist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/search-marketing-strategist) | $78,760 | +6.7% | 87,200 | Bachelor's |
| 8 | Advertising Sales Agent | $64,820 | -6.4% | 9,300 | High school |
| 9 | [Meeting, Convention, and Event Planner](https://nuecareer.com/careers/meeting-convention-and-event-planner) | $61,160 | +4.8% | 15,500 | Bachelor's |
| 10 | Film and Video Editor | $75,420 | +4.0% | 3,600 | Bachelor's |
| 11 | Camera Operator, Television, Video, and Film | $74,990 | +1.2% | 2,900 | Bachelor's |
| 12 | Broadcast Announcer and Radio Disc Jockey | $47,340 | -5.5% | 2,300 | Bachelor's |
| 13 | [Producer and Director](https://nuecareer.com/careers/producer-and-director) | $90,360 | +4.9% | 12,800 | Bachelor's |
| 14 | Fundraiser | $72,550 | +4.3% | 10,200 | Bachelor's |
| 15 | Public Relations Manager | $146,910 | +5.0% | 6,600 | Bachelor's |

Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Projected change, annual openings and typical entry education are BLS Employment Projections. Occupation descriptions are O\*NET. Nothing on this page is estimated and no figure is generated by an AI model.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology