As I remember, the training program at BBDO paid $40/wk in 1956,
but I don't know whether Amherst guys got more. BBDO Ad Great Jim Jordan was a Jeff.
Here are the starting salaries for recent liberal arts grads as reported in Payscale.com's List of the top Liberal Arts Colleges.
The top o' the list of all Colleges and Universities is Princeton.
In Fitzgeralds' This Side of Paradise, Amory (a thinly disguised Fitzgerald) starts at an agency in 1919 at $35/wk. And he was Cottage!
Your experiences?
I have resurrected this post from the dead past because of its' interest value. It now on E-in-E as hoped originally!
(this article also appears on Eph-log)
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