However, there's an opportunity to boost worker wages in the higher paying technology sector.
The data indicates that average pay of the 10 highest paid chief executives for media companies was about $30 million, more than the captains of technology or finance and other industries, who average $6 million to $14 million less.
HIghest paid received £240,000.
INTERACTIVE: TVs highest paid starts.
INTERACTIVE: TVs highest paid stars.
PHOTO: Highest paid media executives in 2012.
PHOTOS: 2012's highest paid media executives.
Determine the highest paying quarter.
As Beaudry, Green, and Sand put it, "having a B.A. is less about obtaining access to high paying managerial and technology jobs and more about beating out less educated workers for the Barista or clerical job".
"Having a B.A. is less about obtaining access to high paying managerial and technology jobs and more about beating out less-educated workers for the barista or clerical job".
In addition, women often shy away from higher paying jobs in engineering and technology because of patterns of sexism that begin as early as grade school, according to an op-ed in the Chronicle of Higher Education from experts in the science and engineering fields.
