Earning a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree generally leads to greater lifetime earnings, but this isn’t true for everyone. This report examines the financial worth of a college degree by analyzing lifetime earnings for eight levels of educational attainment and the earnings variations within levels. The authors discuss how occupation, age, race/ethnicity, and gender affect earnings, thus creating variations even among those with the same degree. Overall, their analysis finds that, generally, individuals with a college education do earn significantly more in their lifetime than individuals without a college degree.