Self-Enrichment Teachers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Self-Enrichment Teachers offer sit among all 308,520 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

BLS counted 308,520 Self-Enrichment Teachers jobs in May 2024, which is 0.20% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Colorado, where the location quotient is 1.64, meaning the occupation holds 1.64 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 54,780 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 32.9% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $90,780, which is 3.1 times the $28,980 at the 10th, a difference of $61,800 annually. Because the mean wage ($53,330) sits above the median ($45,590), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

District of Columbia posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $61,480, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Self-Enrichment Teachers stands number 117 by employment and number 633 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 40% less than its group median, and it supplies 3.4% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 19 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $45,590, 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 33,980 jobs, 11.0% 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, Boise City, ID posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $37,530 a year, against $71,420 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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

The median annual wage of $45,590 works out to $3,799 a month before taxes, $1,753 per biweekly paycheck, and $877 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($35,410) to the 75th ($62,180) is worth $26,770 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $50,149 would sit between the median ($45,590) and the 75th percentile ($62,180), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $35,410, is $10,180 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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