Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary worker at that point in the distribution, so $125,920 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 20,390 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. New York is the largest employer at 1,920 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 25.1% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Vermont, whose location quotient of 3.16 says this work is 3.16 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

One in ten workers in this field earns $52,870 or less, and one in ten earns $171,600 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 3.2 to 1 and the annual gap is $118,730. The mean ($103,030) versus median ($86,220) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

The state spread for Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary runs from the $132,250 median in California down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in New York (1,920 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary stands number 556 by employment and number 176 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 0.2% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 18 of the 48 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $86,220, 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 1,640 jobs, 8.0% 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, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $98,960 a year, against $127,170 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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

The median annual wage of $86,220 works out to $7,185 a month before taxes, $3,316 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,658 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($64,980) to the 75th ($125,920) is worth $60,940 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 $94,842 would sit between the median ($86,220) and the 75th percentile ($125,920), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $64,980, is $21,240 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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