After MBA in any specialization you can earn highest salary package. For many firms, a specialization guarantees – in theory, at least, that a new hire can hit the ground running.

MBAs with a strategy specialization earned $93,100 to start, up from the $92,200 that PayScale in the report. At mid-career, graduates who held a strategy concentration made $148,000, up $3,000.

HRM’s figure of US$78,400 is almost US$70,000 short of strategy’s US$148,000,

Finance
Median Mid-Career Pay: $121,000
Chief financial officer: $168,000
Finance director: $151,000
Senior financial analyst: $85,600

International Business
Median Mid-Career Pay: $116,000
Sales director: $137,000
Operations director: $120,000
IT project manager: $100,000

Marketing
Median Mid-Career Pay: $113,000
Marketing director: $133,000
Business development manager: $105,000
Marketing manager: $102,000

Information Systems
Median Mid-Career Pay: $106,000
IT director: $120,000
IT project manager: $103,000
IT manager: $99,800

Technology Management
Median Mid-Career Pay: $102,000
Vice president of IT: $165,000
IT director: $114,000
IT project manager: $97,600

Business Management
Median Mid-Career Pay: $96,900
Sales director: $114,000
HR director: $101,000
General/operations manager: $85,600

Accounting
Median Mid-Career Pay: $84,000
Chief financial officer: $125,000
Financial controller: $90,500
Senior accountant: $60,800