Exactly 2,120 of the 8,630 communications professionals employed in Wisconsin, work in Milwaukee. There has been a 42% decline in the number of communications professionals in Milwaukee between the years 2006 and 2010. As the employment for communications professionals in Milwaukee has decreased, overall employment in Milwaukee has increased.

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As the number of communications professionals in Milwaukee has shrunk, salaries for communications professionals have increased. In 2010 an average salary of $50,366 per year was earned by communications professionals in Milwaukee. Four years earlier in 2006, the average salary for communications professionals in Milwaukee was $41,817 per year. The growth in the salary of communications professionals in Milwaukee is faster than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Communications professionals make a median salary of $41,754 per year in Milwaukee. The 10% of communications professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $25,760 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately 231% higher salaries.

Milwaukee communications professionals have earnings that are lower than the salaries earned by others in related fields, on average.

Many of Milwaukee's communications professionals are graduates of one of the 8 accredited communications schools in the city.

Milwaukee's communications schools offer 16 communications degree and certificate programs.

In 2010 approximately 412 students completed communications courses.