Media and Communication Workers Career

Total Employees	Hourly Wage	Annual Wage
626K	$39.13	$81,400

Vocational Programs to Prepare Media and Communication Workers Career

The following 70 vocational programs are required or helpful to prepare Media and Communication Workers.

The tuition, program length, and completion time program information is average amounts over all schools that offer each program. This information is only for vocational programs (i.e. certificate programs) and not for bachelor's or graduate degrees.

2024 Average Tuition and Completion Information for Preparing Media and Communication Workers
Program Name	Number of Schools	Tuition & Fees	Books & Supplies	Program Lengths	Avg. Completion Time
Deaf Studies	13	-	-	-	-
Communication	29	-	-	-	-
Speech Communication and Rhetoric	59	-	-	61 Hours	7.22 Months
Mass Communication/Media Studies	27	-	-	-	-
Journalism	39	-	-	-	-
Broadcast Journalism	12	-	-	-	-
Photojournalism	2	-	-	-	-
Cultural Journalism	1	-	-	-	-
Journalism (other)	9	-	-	-	-
Radio and Television	59	$18,794	$125	27 Hours	8.00 Months
Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia	109	$15,070	$1,729	221 Hours	9.30 Months
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication	24	$12,450	$125	30 Hours	6.00 Months
Public Relations/Image Management	20	-	-	-	-
Political Communication	2	-	-	-	-
Health Communication	15	-	-	-	-
Sports Communication	17	$12,450	$125	30 Hours	6.00 Months
International and Intercultural Communication	6	$18,870	$125	26 Hours	8.00 Months
Technical and Scientific Communication	5	-	-	-	-
Publishing	7	-	-	-	-
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (other)	7	-	-	-	-
Communications Technology/Technician	31	-	-	-	-
Voice Writing Technology/Technician	2	-	-	-	-
Education/Teaching of Individuals with Hearing Impairments Including Deafness	8	-	-	-	-
Foreign Languages and Literatures	23	-	-	750 Hours	8.00 Months
Linguistics	12	-	-	-	-
Language Interpretation and Translation	64	-	-	-	-
Applied Linguistics	5	-	-	-	-
East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics	2	-	-	-	-
Chinese Language and Literature	21	-	-	-	-
Japanese Language and Literature	23	-	-	-	-
Korean Language and Literature	7	-	-	-	-
Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics	2	-	-	-	-
Russian Language and Literature	9	-	-	-	-
Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics	3	-	-	-	-
German Language and Literature	25	-	-	-	-
Norwegian Language and Literature	1	-	-	-	-
Sanskrit and Classical Indian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics	1	-	-	-	-
French Language and Literature	41	-	-	-	-
Italian Language and Literature	13	-	-	-	-
Portuguese Language and Literature	2	-	-	-	-
Spanish Language and Literature	102	-	-	-	-
Hispanic and Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics	5	-	-	-	-
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (other)	1	-	-	-	-
American Indian/Native American Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics	15	-	-	-	-
Arabic Language and Literature	17	-	-	-	-
Hebrew Language and Literature	1	-	-	-	-
Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature	2	-	-	-	-
Latin Language and Literature	2	-	-	-	-
Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (other)	1	-	-	-	-
Australian/Oceanic/Pacific Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics	1	-	-	-	-
Filipino/Tagalog Language and Literature	1	-	-	-	-
Southeast Asian and Australasian/Pacific Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other	1	-	-	-	-
American Sign Language (ASL)	53	-	-	-	-
Sign Language Interpretation and Translation	80	-	-	-	-
American Sign Language, Other	2	-	-	-	-
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (other)	16	-	-	-	-
Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Communication	1	-	-	-	-
Court Reporting/Court Reporter	33	$18,665	$3,634	3,300 Hours	37.67 Months
Scopist	1	-	-	-	-
Writing	15	-	-	-	-
Creative Writing	55	-	-	-	-
Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing	86	-	-	-	-
Rhetoric and Composition	4	-	-	-	-
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies (other)	5	-	-	-	-
General Literature	2	-	-	-	-
Children's and Adolescent Literature	3	-	-	-	-
Playwriting and Screenwriting	7	-	-	-	-
Business/Corporate Communications	11	-	-	-	-
Grantsmanship	1	-	-	-	-
Business/Corporate Communications, Other	1	-	-	-	-

Schools offering voational programs for Media and Communication Workers

The following 610 schools offer the vocational programs and courses for preparing Media and Communication Workers. The list includes some 4-year colleges that have certificate or associate programs for the career.