According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics , workers with a bachelor's degree earned an average of $464 more per week than workers with only a high school diploma - a higher salary that can add up over the course of your lifetime. A 2015 report from the U.S. Department of Education found the average worker with a bachelor's degree can earn approximately $1 …show more content…
Sixty-five percent of adults ages 25 and older with a bachelor's degree or more were married in 2014, compared with 53 percent of adults with less education, A degree could mean a longer-lasting marriage, too. According to the report, researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics projected that 78 percent of college-educated women who married for the first time between 2006 and 2010 could expect their marriages to last at least 20 years, compared to just 40 percent of women with a highschool diploma. You would think just that is enough to persuade you if not listen in too this. Just one additional year of college education can increase your lifespan by 15 to 19 percent, according to a 2016 report by the Brookings Institute. In fact, high school graduates have a mortality rate that is double those with some college or a college degree. So let's break this down based on this statistic if adding just one year of collage adds 15-19 percent of your life span and the average person in america lives to be roughly 79 years and just to be generous ill us 15 percent that is still an additional 11 years of your