Post Letter: Social workers' salary depends on license
May 26, 2010As the former chair and current master's of social work chair of the Department of Social Work here at OU, I would like to clarify some misperceptions that might have resulted from your article in Tuesday's issue about Payscale.com's ranking of social work as the lowest paying bachelor's degree. Although the statement is accurate on its face, the following factors need to be taken into account to understand the context of the claim. To keep it brief, I will skip footnotes, most of which you can find at OU's graduate social work website (contact me for other sources):
