Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $47,950. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 36,260 Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors jobs in May 2024, which is 0.02% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Minnesota, where the location quotient is 3.27, meaning the occupation holds 3.27 times its national share of local jobs. North Carolina employs the most people outright, 3,600 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 26.4% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $95,750, which is 2.4 times the $39,750 at the 10th, a difference of $56,000 annually. Because the mean wage ($64,660) sits above the median ($59,950), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is California at $97,000; the jobs leader is North Carolina:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors stands number 449 by employment and number 412 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Educational Instruction and Library Occupations, the group median wage is $76,210 across 64 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 21% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.4% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 20 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $59,950, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 2,470 jobs, 6.8% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $56,940 a year, against $89,880 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors paycheck, gross, is $2,306 every two weeks on an annual $59,950, which is $4,996 a month and $1,153 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($47,950) to the 75th ($76,580) is worth $28,630 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $65,945 would sit between the median ($59,950) and the 75th percentile ($76,580), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $47,950, is $12,000 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Educational Instruction and Library Occupations

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