<p>With a chemistry degree you will either be unemployed, working an awful dead end lab job via a temp agency for $15 an hour, or if you are smart you will go to professional school or grad school in a nonscience subject or do yourself a favor and just don’t do a science undergrad degree unless you are positive you are going to professional school.</p>
<p>The unemployment and salaries are terrible for chemistry grads and even worse for biology grads.
[Chemjobber:</a> Well, that’s not good news](<a href=“http://chemjobber.blogspot.com/2011/03/well-thats-not-good-news.html]Chemjobber:”>Chemjobber: Well, that's not good news)
only 29% of Chemistry grads get full time jobs (even though unemployment is listed as 15% for BS grads it is much worse) and 1/2 of those 29% are in really crappy dead end techie jobs in academia. The average salary is $35k and most of the jobs are in high cost of living areas (NY/NJ/CT, CA, and MA) which make it even more pathetic. $35k in NYC=Big Time Poverty.</p>