Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary 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 ($50,670) to the 90th ($164,290). 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

With 7,130 jobs nationally, Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary make up 0.00% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: New York alone holds 620 of those jobs, the top three states hold 23.4%, and the deepest concentration sits in Vermont (location quotient 7.15, 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: $113,620 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($164,290) is 3.2 times the 10th percentile ($50,670), a gap of $113,620 a year. The mean of $100,360 sitting above the median of $87,710 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts New York first at 620 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Kentucky would lead at $109,970. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary stands number 727 by employment and number 171 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 15% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 17 of the 36 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $87,710, 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 620 jobs, 8.7% 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, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $117,050 a year, against $117,050 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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

Budget arithmetic on the median: $7,309 a month before tax, $3,373 biweekly, $1,687 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($64,360) to the 75th ($124,680) is worth $60,320 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $96,481 would sit between the median ($87,710) and the 75th percentile ($124,680), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $64,360, is $23,350 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

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten and Elementary School, Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary, Instructional Coordinators, Tutors, Special Education Teachers, Secondary School, Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.