Employment Sector of New Doctorate Recipients in Humanities and Arts with a Definite U.S. Employment Commitment, 1988–2020

Employment Sector of New Doctorate Recipients in Humanities and Arts with a Definite U.S. Employment Commitment, 1988–2020

While the share of new humanities and arts PhDs with a definite U.S. employment commitment who were taking an academic job decreased by almost 15 percentage points from 2008 to 2020 (the period during which listings of such jobs declined precipitously, as described in Academic Job Openings Listed with Scholarly Societies in the Humanities, by Discipline, 2002–2020), the share entering not-for-profit organizations increased 6 percentage points. Modest growth, of approximately 4 percentage points each, was also observed in the shares entering industry/business or employment in the “other or unknown” category, which consists largely of K–12 education jobs.21

Endnotes

• 21Ibid.