Health Specialties Teachers, 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 Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $74,400. 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 229,720 people in May 2024, 0.15% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 22,840 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 27.8% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Vermont, whose location quotient of 2.37 says this work is 2.37 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

BLS top-codes or suppresses part of this occupation's national ladder, so the published center is the median of $105,620 and the mean of $137,900. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 51 states with published estimates.

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 Arkansas at $178,830; the jobs leader is Texas:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary stands number 146 by employment and number 96 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 2.6% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 16 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $105,620, 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 15,610 jobs, 6.8% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 192 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Knoxville, TN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $81,860 a year, against $200,620 in Greenville, NC. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $105,620 a year is $8,802 a month gross, $4,062 every two weeks, $2,031 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($74,400) to the 75th ($176,090) is worth $101,690 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 $8,802 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 $116,182 would sit between the median ($105,620) and the 75th percentile ($176,090), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $74,400, is $31,220 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: Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other, Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education, Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary, Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School, Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary, Special Education Teachers, Middle School. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.