Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary worker at that point in the distribution, so $106,270 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 48,820 people in May 2024, 0.03% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 4,560 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.3% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in New Mexico, whose location quotient of 1.58 says this work is 1.58 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $112,870 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($161,020) is 3.3 times the 10th percentile ($48,150), a gap of $112,870 a year. The mean of $92,880 sitting above the median of $79,350 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

California posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $130,750, and Texas the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary stands number 393 by employment and number 214 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 4% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.5% 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 $79,350, 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 3,730 jobs, 7.6% 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, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $77,730 a year, against $157,360 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, 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

The median Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary paycheck, gross, is $3,052 every two weeks on an annual $79,350, which is $6,612 a month and $1,526 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($60,880) to the 75th ($106,270) is worth $45,390 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $87,285 would sit between the median ($79,350) and the 75th percentile ($106,270), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $60,880, is $18,470 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

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