The Average Salary for a PhD Linguist
Linguistics is a social science involving language. Linguists study sounds, origins and meanings of languages both ancient and modern. Salaries vary greatly in the field, but as with any profession, those with a doctoral degree tend to have a higher salary than those without.
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Education Requirements
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For those entering the field of linguistics, a bachelor's degree in English, a foreign language or linguistics is essential. A master's degree will open up even more opportunities, and a doctoral degree will give you the skills needed to teach linguistics at a university or do advanced research in the field.
Salary
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) categorizes linguistics in the field of anthropology and states that median annual wages for anthropologists in 2008 were $53,910. In May, 2009, BLS states that mean annual wages for social science teachers at the postsecondary level were $77,040.
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Projection
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According to BLS, employment of anthropologists and archaeologists (linguists are listed in this category) is expected to increase by 28 percent between 2008 and 2018 -- much faster than the average for all occupations. Employment for all postsecondary teachers is expected to grow by 15 percent within those same years, so opportunities for linguistics teachers are positive as well. Employment for linguists specifically is expected to grow with an increasing demand for online thesauruses and dictionaries and language learning assisted by computers.
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