Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 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 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $83,840. 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 319,630 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary jobs in May 2024, which is 0.21% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Hawaii, where the location quotient is 1.86, meaning the occupation holds 1.86 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 35,900 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 27.7% of the national total.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $83,840 at the 25th percentile, $104,070 at the middle, $132,550 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $93,420, a ratio of 2.3 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

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 Washington at $161,090; the jobs leader is Texas:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary stands number 113 by employment and number 102 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Management Occupations, the group median wage is $106,980 across 38 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 3% less than its group median, and it supplies 2.9% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 21 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $104,070, 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 20,840 jobs, 6.5% 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, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $73,520 a year, against $161,380 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. 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

As a household number, $104,070 a year is $8,672 a month gross, $4,003 every two weeks, $2,001 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($83,840) to the 75th ($132,550) is worth $48,710 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $8,672 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $114,477 would sit between the median ($104,070) and the 75th percentile ($132,550), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $83,840, is $20,230 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Management Occupations

Sibling occupations in Management Occupations: Industrial Production Managers, Human Resources Managers, Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers, Chief Executives, Architectural and Engineering Managers, Social and Community Service Managers. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.