Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary offer sit among all 39,910 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

With 39,910 jobs nationally, Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary make up 0.03% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Texas alone holds 4,740 of those jobs, the top three states hold 29.2%, and the deepest concentration sits in North Dakota (location quotient 1.98, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $140,860 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($200,650) is 3.4 times the 10th percentile ($59,790), a gap of $140,860 a year. The mean of $119,340 sitting above the median of $106,120 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 50 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Kansas at $129,700; the jobs leader is Texas:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary stands number 427 by employment and number 92 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 39% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.4% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 18 of the 49 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $106,120, 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 2,800 jobs, 7.0% 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, Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $78,890 a year, against $158,810 in Ann Arbor, MI. 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 $106,120 works out to $8,843 a month before taxes, $4,082 per biweekly paycheck, and $2,041 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($80,060) to the 75th ($136,400) is worth $56,340 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 $116,732 would sit between the median ($106,120) and the 75th percentile ($136,400), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $80,060, is $26,060 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

Sibling occupations in Educational Instruction and Library Occupations: Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary, Economics Teachers, Postsecondary, Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary, Curators, Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.