Report Highlights:

Report Praises STEM Associate Degrees
A new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce shows that 65 percent of Bachelor's degrees in STEM (science, engineering, technology and mathematics) occupations earn more than Master's degrees in non-STEM occupations. Similarly, 47 percent of Bachelor's degrees in STEM occupations earn more than Ph.D.s in non-STEM occupations.  Furthermore, even people with only STEM certificates can earn more than people with non-STEM degrees; for instance certificate holders in engineering earn more than Associate's degree-holders in business and more than Bachelor's degree-holders in education. Find out more....

"STEM: Good Jobs Now and For the Future"
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) released a 2011 report that profiles U.S. employment in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The report offers an inside look at workers who are driving our nation's innovation and competitiveness and helping America win the future with new ideas, new companies and new industries. According to the report, in 2010, 7.6 million people or 5.5 percent of the labor force worked in STEM occupations.
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STEM Workforce Proportionately Largest in Maryland, Smallest in Mississippi
The Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology released a publication entitled STEM in the States. It provides information on important indicators of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and workforces in each state in comparative perspective. These data are presented alongside many common indicators of economic well-being: median household incomes, state gross domestic product, poverty rate, home ownership rates and the like. The publication echoes findings of earlier CPST-produced compendia: that STEM does a poor job in tapping the rich talent pool in the United States. Find out more....

Research, Reports, and other Resources

• "STEM: Good Jobs Now and For the Future"
  A 2011 U.S. Department of Commerce's Economics and Statistics Administration  report that profiles U.S. employment in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
• The STEM Workforce Challenge:
  the Role of the Public Workforce System in a National Solution for a Competitive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce
  This Department of Labor Report
• Students Who Study Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in Postsecondary Education
  This 2009 brief focuses on undergraduates who enter STEM programs and examines their characteristics and postsecondary outcomes (persistence and degree completion) several years after beginning postsecondary education.
• STEM in the States provides information on important indicators of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and workforces in each state in comparative perspective.
• IT Workforce Data Project
  The IT Workforce Data Project, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, identified trustworthy statistics on information technology workers in the United States. 
• STEM Workforce Data Project
  There are one hundred and seven (107) data archive tables divided into fourteen (14) groups. The data archive tables supplement the STEM Workforce Data Project's first nine reports.
• Is U.S. Science and Technology Adrift?
  Report that assesses the present condition of employment and compensation in STEM occupations and examines the status of science in the U.S.
• Policy and the STEM Workforce System
  The report followed nearly three years of data analysis designed to package reliable statistics on the U.S. STEM workforce.
• Preparing the STEM Workforce of the 21st century
  This 2005 report summarizes discussions and recommendations resulting from a workshop convened at the National Science Foundation to examine issues surrounding the development of a diverse and
  well-prepared science and engineering workforce for the 21st century.
• 21st Century Statistics on the STEM Workforce
  A 2010 report for the National Science Foundation's Workshop on the Science of Science Metrics

Sources of Additional Information

• Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology
  CPST specializes in the collection, analysis and publication of reliable information about the human resources of the U.S. in the fields of science, engineering and technology.  
• SESTAT is the Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System. This integrated data system is a unique source of longitudinal information on the education and employment of the college-educated U.S. science and engineering workforce.