Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary offer sit among all 8,700 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 8,700, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. Texas leads the state table with 1,290 jobs; the top three states sum to 25.3% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Wyoming posts a location quotient of 5.63, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $111,790 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($160,870) is 3.3 times the 10th percentile ($49,080), a gap of $111,790 a year. The mean of $97,790 sitting above the median of $86,350 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Texas first at 1,290 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Michigan would lead at $130,630. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary stands number 703 by employment and number 175 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 13% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 18 of the 42 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $86,350, 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

College Station-Bryan, TX is the largest metro employer with 530 jobs, 6.1% 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, College Station-Bryan, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $124,920 a year, against $124,920 in College Station-Bryan, TX. 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 Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary paycheck, gross, is $3,321 every two weeks on an annual $86,350, which is $7,196 a month and $1,661 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($63,980) to the 75th ($123,290) is worth $59,310 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 $94,985 would sit between the median ($86,350) and the 75th percentile ($123,290), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $63,980, is $22,370 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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