History 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 History Teachers, Postsecondary offer sit among all 19,860 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 19,860 jobs nationally, History Teachers, Postsecondary make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Texas alone holds 2,170 of those jobs, the top three states hold 28.3%, and the deepest concentration sits in Arkansas (location quotient 2.74, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

One in ten workers in this field earns $47,730 or less, and one in ten earns $158,140 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 3.3 to 1 and the annual gap is $110,410. The mean ($93,710) versus median ($81,500) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

California posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $121,020, and Texas the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, History Teachers, Postsecondary stands number 564 by employment and number 198 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 7% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 19 of the 49 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $81,500, 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 1,530 jobs, 7.7% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $85,260 a year, against $128,910 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $81,500 a year is $6,792 a month gross, $3,135 every two weeks, $1,567 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($62,370) to the 75th ($106,770) is worth $44,400 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 $6,792 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 $89,650 would sit between the median ($81,500) and the 75th percentile ($106,770), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $62,370, is $19,130 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

Pay for the neighboring roles in the same BLS major group: 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, Business Teachers, Postsecondary. The full directory is on the Careers hub.