<p>Right now there is a very high demand by large corporations and companies for economics majors and more so for economic graduate students because the companies require them to do economic forecasting, which allows the companies to determine when and where to invest their money. Since the economic is what it is now, the companies need these economic forecasters more than ever to predict sound and safe economic changes and investment opportunities. Also, if you look at the average salary for an economics professor at good academic colleges it starts at 200k and goes up because these people are in high demand by businesses.</p>