The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the median salary of anthropologists is $66,130 annually, median pay is $31.79 per hour. The list isn't short because there are many good Anthropology graduate programs nowadays. In fact, the number of programs has decreased in the last decade or so, because the field of Anthropology has evolved. Nowadays, most Anthropology graduate programs focus on applied anthropology. There are still in-depth graduate programs, but these are not the focus of most schools.