The pay gap between college graduates and everyone else reached a record high last year, according to the new data. . americans with four-year college degrees made 98 percent more an hour on average in 2013 than people without a degree. that’s up from 89 percent five years earlier, 85 percent a decade earlier and 64 percent in the early 1980s.–“is college worth it? clearly, new data say,”the new york times workers who have completed an education at a college or university tend to make workers who have not in 2013, workers with a college degree made on average than workers without one. according to the text, the pay gap between workers with a college degree and workers without one has been over time. based on this information alone, getting an education at a four-year college could best be described as a(n)