Postsecondary Teachers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Postsecondary Teachers, All Other offer sit among all 151,530 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 151,530 jobs nationally, Postsecondary Teachers, All Other make up 0.10% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 48,460 of those jobs, the top three states hold 42.7%, and the deepest concentration sits in Louisiana (location quotient 3.74, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $172,850, which is 4.4 times the $39,720 at the 10th, a difference of $133,130 annually. Because the mean wage ($94,470) sits above the median ($78,490), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 48,460 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Hawaii would lead at $135,380. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Postsecondary Teachers, All Other stands number 204 by employment and number 220 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 3% more than its group median, and it supplies 1.7% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 16 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $78,490, 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

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 18,410 jobs, 12.1% 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, Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $55,300 a year, against $166,190 in Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA. 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 Postsecondary Teachers, All Other paycheck, gross, is $3,019 every two weeks on an annual $78,490, which is $6,541 a month and $1,509 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($55,500) to the 75th ($122,510) is worth $67,010 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 $86,339 would sit between the median ($78,490) and the 75th percentile ($122,510), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $55,500, is $22,990 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: Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary, Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary, Special Education Teachers, All Other, Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors, Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary, Communications Teachers, Postsecondary. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.