<p>Unless you have many years of specialized experience in a very specialized field a general biology degree will not get your anthing. Perhaps a lab technician job.</p>
<p>That artile seems out of date. A BS in just about any science will almost never get you a scientist position. You will almost always be a technician. Most technicians have BS’s now a days not AS’s anymore.</p>
<p>The median pay is a bit inflated unless they are including people with 10+ years experience. A technician position will get you $12-20 per hour typically without benefits as companies keep them as permatemps to avoid employer laws and paying benefits.</p>
<p>Finally the BLS employment data is a bit misleading. They tend to quote unemployment in such a way that it looks far far better than it really is.</p>
<p>Just looking at unemployment stats at the height of the recession 10% that would look at first glance that hey 90% of the people are employed so noone should be out of work very long. It doesn’t reflect the large number of underemployed or those who have left the labor force entirely.</p>
<p>A more realistic survey done by the ACS on chemistry grads showed that while unemployment was 15-20% only 40% had full time jobs, and of that 40% half were working low paying dead end technician jobs in academia.
[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)</p>
<p>I can tell you that biology is worse not better than chemistry for finding a job. I have a very strong biology background but I never even bothered with it much as my chem background was 10 fold more successful at getting a job which isn’t saying much as my last job search was a 3 year gueling nightmare with a graduate degree. Also a large number of biology jobs prefer chemists because they typically have better lab and instrument skills.</p>