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by ansy 3421 days ago
http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pa...

#11 Physics & Mathematics $56,200 starting, $111,000 mid-career

Compare that to Computer Science

# 5 Computer Science (CS) & Engineering, starting $71,200, mid-career $116,000

Also, I work with and have interviewed many people with physics and math degrees. Granted, there's some sampling bias going on there. But the ones I know didn't really have prospects actually using their degrees in their respective fields unless they got a phd and went into academia. So they all went into tech one way or another.