Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($24,160) to the 90th ($95,310). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 114,640 people in May 2024, 0.07% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 36,100 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 52.9% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Georgia, whose location quotient of 3.66 says this work is 3.66 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $71,150 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($95,310) is 3.9 times the 10th percentile ($24,160), a gap of $71,150 a year. The mean of $55,700 sitting above the median of $48,400 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 Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other runs from the $77,520 median in District of Columbia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (36,100 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other stands number 242 by employment and number 564 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 36% less than its group median, and it supplies 1.3% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 29 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $48,400, 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 11,880 jobs, 10.4% 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, College Station-Bryan, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $28,530 a year, against $77,110 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. 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, $48,400 a year is $4,033 a month gross, $1,862 every two weeks, $931 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($33,280) to the 75th ($68,800) is worth $35,520 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 $4,033 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 $53,240 would sit between the median ($48,400) and the 75th percentile ($68,800), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $33,280, is $15,120 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: Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors, Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary, Communications Teachers, Postsecondary, Special Education Teachers, Preschool, Law Teachers, Postsecondary, Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.