NIU students graduating in 1988 can get a sneak preview of what kind of salaries they might be bringing home by looking in The Jobs Related Almanac which comes out in May.

The 352-page book, edited by Les Krantz, lists average annual salaries for graduates from the lowest range expectancy of a newscaster at $9,809, to aerospace engineers at $37,642.

George Kubat, assistant director of NIU’s Career Planning and Placement Center, said the book’s figures are pretty close to those of the College Placement Council Salary Survey.

The CPCS survey is comprised of starting salaries of NIU graduates.

“(The book) is pretty accurate,” Kubat said. “It’s current—I’d say it’s worthwhile, depending on what other information is in it.”

A salary is just one piece of the pie, Krantz stated in a press release issued by Pharos Books, the publisher of the almanac. The book covers more than just paycheck numbers.

“The top scoring jobs in overall rankings are generally those at which workers are not only well paid, but also compensated in a fashion not calculated in their paychecks. They are jobs which are performed under optimum conditions in comfortable surroundings,” Krantz stated in the release.

He said the 250 jobs in the study are broken up into nine separate categories: income, environment, outlook, stress, security, physical demands, travel opportunities, extras and job location.

Krantz, who is president of American References in Chicago, said that a print editor, one of the lower-paid jobs at $12,372, is number one in job outlook.

Another example Krantz uses are bankers who start moderately high in the salary ranking with $19,620 and also rank the highest in quality travel opportunities.

Other salaries listed in the almanac for some of the highest paid graduates include those with a math or science degree who can expect to start at $29,827. This salary is higher than the $16,500 to $26,500 listed in the 1987 CPCS survey.

The next two highest average salaries are for education/humanities majors and finance majors who nearly tied at $21,664 and $21,236, respectively.

Krantz also has published critically acclaimed art books as well as books of general interest, the release stated.