| If there is one thing that prompts most people to go | | | | Completion Bonus |
| back to school more than any other, it is probably the | | | | One of the best parts of earning an online MBA |
| incentive of higher earnings. This is because those with | | | | degree is that it has the potential to instantly open |
| a higher degree can demand and are entitled to a | | | | doors for you. If your own company doesn't have a |
| higher pay grade due to their increased education and | | | | higher pay scale for those who are holding Master's |
| qualifications, and also because people who have an | | | | degrees, you may instead find that another job that is |
| MBA are going to be promoted time and again over | | | | much higher paying will open up for you immediately as |
| those who may only hold a Bachelor's degree in | | | | a result of your increased qualifications. |
| business, marketing or finance. | | | | Look at the figures compiled by the Graduate |
| The Numbers Speak for Themselves | | | | Management Admissions Council: workers in marketing |
| The average salary figures of CFO's speak very | | | | before completing an MBA earn on average $42,000 |
| loudly about what value might lie in someone going | | | | annually. Those who complete their MBA earn on |
| back to school to earn an online MBA degree. A CFO | | | | average $80,000. That is a pretty large pay raise for |
| without a degree at all earns, on average, less than | | | | only a few years of time back in school. |
| forty thousand dollars a year. That's not a lot of | | | | Increase Can Be Quick, or Over Time, but It will Be |
| money by anyone's measure. A CFO with a | | | | There |
| Bachelor's degree earns more than double that on | | | | Even if your salary doesn't double the day after you |
| average; earning just a bit less than ninety thousand a | | | | complete your online MBA degree, you have to realize |
| year. Someone with a Masters degree in this position | | | | that there is now going to be a much higher ceiling on |
| could be earning over a hundred thousand dollars a | | | | your potential earnings. You will be qualified for many |
| year. While not an increase as significant as that of | | | | higher responsibility, higher pay grade positions now |
| degree holders over non-degree holders, it is still an | | | | that you would never have been considered for |
| important jump that will really add up over the course | | | | before you completed the degree. |
| of a few years of employment. | | | | |