Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary 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 Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $64,010. 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 53,250 Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary jobs in May 2024, which is 0.03% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Arizona, where the location quotient is 2.29, meaning the occupation holds 2.29 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 4,240 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 22.2% of the national total.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $118,800 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($169,560) is 3.3 times the 10th percentile ($50,760), a gap of $118,800 a year. The mean of $101,340 sitting above the median of $83,460 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

The state spread for Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary runs from the $125,670 median in California down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (4,240 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary stands number 381 by employment and number 192 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 10% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.6% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 19 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $83,460, 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 3,100 jobs, 5.8% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Urban Honolulu, HI posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $75,520 a year, against $178,350 in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $6,955 a month before tax, $3,210 biweekly, $1,605 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($64,010) to the 75th ($125,310) is worth $61,300 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $91,806 would sit between the median ($83,460) and the 75th percentile ($125,310), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $64,010, is $19,450 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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