115,000 Janitors Have College Degrees
Nearly half of employed college graduates in the United States hold down jobs that don’t require a four-year college education — including 323,200 waiters and waitresses, 115,520 janitors and cleaners, and 83,028 bartenders. A new report from the nonprofit Center for College Affordability and Productivity discloses that 37 percent of employed college graduates are in jobs requiring no more than a high-school diploma, and 11 percent are in occupations requiring more than a high-school diploma but less than a bachelor’s degree. About five million college graduates are in jobs that the Bureau of Labor Statistics says don’t even require a high-school education. The lead author of the report, Richard Vedder — an Ohio University economist and founder of the Center — says the trend is likely to continue over the next decade. “It’s almost the new normal,” he declared. The problem is an oversupply of college-educated Americans compared to the number of jobs requiring a college degree:
According to Vedder, that helps explain why 15 percent of cab drivers had a bachelor’s degree in 2010 — compared to 1 percent in 1970 — as did 25 percent of retail sales clerks and 15 percent of firefighters. Vedder, who is also an Adjunct Scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, added: “There are going to be an awful lot of disappointed [graduates] because a lot of them are going to end up as janitors.”
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