Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary worker at that point in the distribution, so $98,570 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 13,350 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. New York is the largest employer at 1,770 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.0% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in New Mexico, whose location quotient of 3.51 says this work is 3.51 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $129,280, which is 2.8 times the $45,370 at the 10th, a difference of $83,910 annually. Because the mean wage ($81,880) sits above the median ($76,210), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 44 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Hawaii at $129,160; the jobs leader is New York:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary stands number 637 by employment and number 248 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 0% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 15 of the 44 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $76,210, 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 1,550 jobs, 11.6% 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, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $72,870 a year, against $106,830 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

As a household number, $76,210 a year is $6,351 a month gross, $2,931 every two weeks, $1,466 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($57,080) to the 75th ($98,570) is worth $41,490 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 $6,351 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 $83,831 would sit between the median ($76,210) and the 75th percentile ($98,570), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $57,080, 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

Sibling occupations in Educational Instruction and Library Occupations: Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary, Museum Technicians and Conservators, Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary, Economics Teachers, Postsecondary, Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary, Curators. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.