Business Teachers, Postsecondary Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Business Teachers, Postsecondary worker at that point in the distribution, so $140,360 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 81,780 people in May 2024, 0.05% of every job BLS counted. New York is the largest employer at 8,640 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 25.1% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Massachusetts, whose location quotient of 2.34 says this work is 2.34 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $164,070 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($210,530) is 4.5 times the 10th percentile ($46,460), a gap of $164,070 a year. The mean of $113,840 sitting above the median of $97,270 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 Business Teachers, Postsecondary runs from the $142,230 median in Alaska down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in New York (8,640 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Business Teachers, Postsecondary stands number 300 by employment and number 139 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 28% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.9% 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 $97,270, 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 7,190 jobs, 8.8% 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, Cleveland, OH posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $81,950 a year, against $153,180 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 annual wage of $97,270 works out to $8,106 a month before taxes, $3,741 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,871 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($63,040) to the 75th ($140,360) is worth $77,320 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $106,997 would sit between the median ($97,270) and the 75th percentile ($140,360), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $63,040, is $34,230 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

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Librarians and Media Collections Specialists, Teachers and Instructors, All Other, Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other, Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education, Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary, Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.