Tutors Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($28,430) to the 90th ($78,810). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 174,660 Tutors jobs in May 2024, which is 0.11% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Hawaii, where the location quotient is 3.20, meaning the occupation holds 3.20 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 45,690 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 39.7% of the national total.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $33,410 at the 25th percentile, $40,090 at the middle, $55,380 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $50,380, a ratio of 2.8 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

Wyoming posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $64,450, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Tutors stands number 180 by employment and number 703 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 47% less than its group median, and it supplies 2.0% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 26 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $40,090, 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 19,440 jobs, 11.1% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 269 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, El Paso, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $28,650 a year, against $63,500 in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. 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

As a household number, $40,090 a year is $3,341 a month gross, $1,542 every two weeks, $771 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($33,410) to the 75th ($55,380) is worth $21,970 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 $3,341 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 $44,099 would sit between the median ($40,090) and the 75th percentile ($55,380), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $33,410, is $6,680 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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