Social Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, All Other 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 Social Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, All Other ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $59,550. 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

With 17,540 jobs nationally, Social Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, All Other make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 3,080 of those jobs, the top three states hold 40.2%, and the deepest concentration sits in Rhode Island (location quotient 2.93, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $59,550 at the 25th percentile, $75,040 at the middle, $105,390 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $131,070, a ratio of 3.9 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 3,080 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Hawaii would lead at $134,150. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Social Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, All Other stands number 583 by employment and number 253 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 2% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 16 of the 43 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $75,040, 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 1,670 jobs, 9.5% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 55 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, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $66,320 a year, against $133,480 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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

The median Social Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, All Other paycheck, gross, is $2,886 every two weeks on an annual $75,040, which is $6,253 a month and $1,443 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($59,550) to the 75th ($105,390) is worth $45,840 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 $82,544 would sit between the median ($75,040) and the 75th percentile ($105,390), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $59,550, is $15,490 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: Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School, Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary, Special Education Teachers, Middle School, Business Teachers, Postsecondary, Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary, Library Technicians. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.