Most college career centers are familiar with the fact that men and women graduating with the same college major and similar grades and classes will embark on their careers with similar starting salaries. What may be less known to the career centers is that those same graduates will have very different salaries within a few years after graduation. This presentation is based on a true longitudinal study of the graduates of the class of 2000, all with similar majors, from a small liberal arts college. Like many other studies, results how that while salaries for men and women at graduation were similar, men's salaries increased quicker than women's salaries. But unlike other studies, this one tracked the same students over multiple time periods. Though the size of the cohort is small, this study is rich with information that may be helpful to college career centers. This information may also be useful to employers who want to insure that their investment in recruiting and training women professionals pays off in terms of high satisfaction and high retention rates