"Advisors in ILR’s Office of Career Services were with me through every step of the search process. During my first two years, they taught me how to explore different jobs, use LinkedIn and prepare for career fairs. As a junior and senior, their resume critiques and practice interviews helped me get an internship at the State Department and my fulltime job in consulting.”
66%
Graduates found employment through ILR and the Cornell network
1 in 2
Fortune 500 companies have an ILRie on their senior HR leadership
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Salaries and Career Fields
Summary
Through job fairs, alumni networking events, workshops and other career services, ILR’s Class of 2023 continued our tradition of sending graduates to top employers and prominent graduate schools.
Key Insights
- Nearly 78% of recent ILR graduates accepted positions at for-profits, non-profits, and government agencies.
- Their average starting salary was $79,000.
- Graduates pursued multiple career fields, including HR, consulting, finance, law, and public service.
2023 BSILR Data by Career Field
| Career Field | Percentage | Mean | Range |
| Financial Analysis/Services | 26% | $95,116 | $57,000-$120,000 |
| Human Resource/Corporate Labor Relations | 14% | $71,862 | $37,440-$100,000 |
| HR Consulting | 11% | $82,694 | $50,000-$90,001 |
| Management Consulting | 11% | $93,029 | $70,000-$117,000 |
| Paralegal/Legal Assistant | 10% | $58,478 | $44,253-$82,000 |
| Other (sports, medical/medical support, dispute resolution, journalism) | 6% | $56,804 | $19,500-$100,000 |
| Business- General (Design, product/project management, management rotational program) | 5% | $80,864 | $65,000-$108,050 |
| Business Development/Sales | 3% | * | * |
| Labor Organizing/Research | 3% | $69,956 | $60,000-$78,000 |
| Nonprofit Administration | 2% | * | * |
| Public Service | 2% | * | * |
| Research | 2% | * | * |
| Marketing | 1% | * | * |
| Education | 1% | * | * |
| Not reported | 1% |
* Three or fewer students reported salaries
Employers
| A.T. Kearney |
| Accenture |
| Adirondack River Outfitters/ Park City Ski Resort |
| Aksia |
| Alpha Financial Markets Consulting |
| AlphaSights Ltd. |
| Amazon |
| American Federation of Teachers |
| AmeriCorps VISTA |
| Ardian |
| Bank of America |
| Bantr |
| Baylor Scott & White Health |
| Blackstone |
| Boeing Company (The) |
| Boston Beer Company |
| Boston Consulting Group |
| Bronx County District Attorney's Office |
| BSE Global |
| Buffalo Riverworks |
| California School Employees Association |
| Cary Kane LLP |
| CastleOak Securities |
| Chefs' Warehouse |
| Citigroup |
| City Year |
| Civil Service Employees Association |
| ClearBridge Compensation Group |
| Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| Community Food Bank of New Jersey |
| Consigli Construction |
| Cornerstone Research |
| Covenant House International |
| Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP |
| DBD Partners |
| Definitive Healthcare |
| Democratic Party |
| Desena & Sweeney, LLP |
| Deutsche Bank |
| DTCC |
| Elks National Foundation |
| Epic Systems |
| EQT |
| Equiteq |
| Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. (The) |
| Evercore Partners |
| EY (Ernst & Young) |
| EY-Parthenon |
| Farient Advisors LLC |
| Florida Financial Advisors |
| Forvia/ Faurecia |
| FW Cook |
| Georgia Office of Planning and Budget |
| HSBC |
| IKOS Consulting |
| InSite Software Inc |
| Invus Group |
| ISS Corporate Solutions |
| Jackson Lewis P.C. |
| Jefferies Group |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
| Keefe Bruyette and Woods |
| Kingfish Group |
| KPMG |
| L3Harris Technologies |
| Latham & Watkins |
| Law Offices of Adam Dayan |
| L'Oreal USA |
| Make Us Visible |
| Massaro Corporation |
| Mazars |
| McKinsey & Company |
| McMaster-Carr Supply Company |
| Media Advisory Partners |
| Mercer |
| Miller Shah LLP |
| Mitsui Bussan Commodities |
| Morgan Stanley |
| National Basketball Association |
| NBCUniversal |
| Nearwater Capital |
| New Era Manufacturing Ltd. |
| New York County District Attorney's Office |
| Northwestern Mutual |
| Orangetheory Fitness |
| Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano, LLP |
| Pay Governance LLC |
| PepsiCo |
| PIMCO |
| Point 72 |
| Precision Business Solutions |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) |
| Procter & Gamble |
| Proskauer Rose LLP |
| Pulakos CPAs PC |
| QinetiQ |
| Quadrant Strategies |
| RBC Capital Markets |
| Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York |
| RWA.xyz |
| Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP |
| Santander Private Banking International |
| Scheinman Arbitration and Mediation Services |
| Scotiabank |
| SEIU 1199NW |
| Simon-Kucher & Partners |
| Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
| Spencer Ogden |
| Spencer Stuart |
| Sullivan & Cromwell LLP |
| Tastebud Market LLC |
| Textron Inc. |
| Turn/River Capital |
| UBS |
| United Food and Commercial Workers |
| United States Department of State |
| University of Michigan |
| Virginia Education Association |
| Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz |
| Walt Disney Parks & Resorts |
| Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. |
| Wells Fargo |
| Wells Fargo Securities |
| William Morris Endeavor (WME) |
| ZRG Partners, LLC |
Law and Graduate Schools
| Grad School | Grad Degree | Grad Field |
| American University, Washington College of Law | JD | Law |
| Boston College Law School | JD | Law |
| Brooklyn Law School | JD | Law |
| Columbia University | ||
| Columbia Law School | JD | Law |
| Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) | MIA | Master of International Relations |
| Cornell University | ||
| Cornell Law School | JD | Law |
| SC Johnson College of Business | MBA | Business Administration |
| ILR School | MS | Industrial & Labor Relations |
| Duke University School of Law | JD | Law |
| NYU School of Law | JD | Law |
| University at Buffalo School of Law | JD | Law |
| UCLA School of Law | JD | Law |
| University of Chicago, The Law School | JD | Law |
| UNSW Sydney Law & Justice (Australia) | JD | Law |
| University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law | JD | Law |
| Wayne State University Law School | JD | Law |
| UMass-Amherst, Isenberg School of Management | MS | Sport Management |
| Cal Poly, Orfalea College of Business | MBA | Business Administration |
| Purdue University's Mitchell E. Daniels, JR. School of Business | MSHRM | Human Resource Management |
| UAlbany, Massry School of Business | MBA | Business Administration |
| University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business | MBA | Business Administration |
| Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) | MPhil | Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation |
| Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business | MS | Finance |
| Missouri Science and Technology | MS | Industrial-Organizational Pyschology |
| SciencesPo (Paris, France) | MS | Human Rights and Humanitarian Action |
| Rutgers- New Brunswick School of Management and Labor Relations | PhD | Labor, Work, and Society |
Select Job Titles
| Associate - Mergers and Acquisitions |
| Associate Consultant |
| Associate, global product marketing |
| Brand Manager |
| Campaign Field Organizer |
| Commercial Real Estate Analyst |
| Consultant |
| Corporate Partnerships Coordinator |
| Design Development Analyst |
| Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Co-op |
| Executive Compensation Consultant |
| Experienced Associate |
| Financial Representative |
| Fiscal Policy Analyst I |
| Ghost Writer |
| Global Human Resources Management Analyst |
| HR Rotational Development Program Participant |
| HR Service Delivery Analyst |
| Investment Banking Analyst |
| Legal Assistant |
| Litigation Paralegal |
| Management Analyst |
| Management Development Program Participant |
| Media Affairs Intern |
| Music Central Assistant |
| Network Relations Specialist |
| Organizer |
| Organizing Specialist |
| Paralegal |
| Policy Specialist |
| Private Equity Analyst |
| Program Specialist (International Relations) |
| Project Manager |
| Recruitment and Operations Associate |
| Research Technician |
| Sales & Trading Analyst |
| Sales Development Representative |
| Stat Auditor |
| Sustainable Finance Integration Analyst |
| Teacher/Americorps Member |
Get more information on post graduate data on our Master of Industrial and Labor program.