Types

• Job possibilities for math majors include actuary, teacher/professor, statistician, cryptologist, engineer, computer scientist and operations research analyst---among many, many others.
  
  

Job Description

• Mathematicians develop new principles, recognize new relationships between established mathematics principles, formulate and solve problems for companies and may even analyze and decipher secret codes for the military, the government or for general law-enforcement. Note that a Ph.D. is often required for many math-related positions.
  
  

Potential Employers

• UC Davis marks these employers as some who look for math majors: schools, state and federal government, the IRS, Transamerica Insurance Co., Jet Propulsion Laboratory, L. L. Bean, IBM Corporation, Center for Communications Research, Sandia National Laboratories, A. C. Nielsen Co., American Airlines, Exxon Production Research Co., United Airlines, Prudential Securities and International Computer Science Institute.
  
  

Salary Potential

• According to BYU, the median annual income for math majors entering into a math-related field is $94,160.
  
  

Future Outlook

• The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that employment for math-related fields is expected to increase by 22 percent by 2018.
  
  

Benefits

• A 2009 study performed by CareerCast.com considered work environment, hours per week, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress of many jobs and found that the top three---mathematician, actuary and statistician---all require math expertise.