Education Administrators, 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 Education Administrators, Postsecondary ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $79,880. 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

The occupation employed 176,420 people in May 2024, 0.11% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 17,490 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 25.0% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Massachusetts, whose location quotient of 2.27 says this work is 2.27 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $79,880 at the 25th percentile, $103,960 at the middle, $140,940 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $148,600, a ratio of 3.3 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

The state spread for Education Administrators, Postsecondary runs from the $147,190 median in Alaska down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (17,490 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Education Administrators, Postsecondary stands number 179 by employment and number 103 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 1.6% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 26 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $103,960, 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

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 7,030 jobs, 4.0% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

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, $78,230 a year, against $204,540 in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $103,960 a year is $8,663 a month gross, $3,998 every two weeks, $1,999 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($79,880) to the 75th ($140,940) is worth $61,060 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 $8,663 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 $114,356 would sit between the median ($103,960) and the 75th percentile ($140,940), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $79,880, is $24,080 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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