Occupation / job
Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
The $61,540 midpoint sits $5.53 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 23% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors.
At 37,310 employed, this is a mid-sized occupation. In a normal city that means several possible employers and a genuine market rate, which is the point at which knowing the numbers on this page starts to be worth money.
Instructing outside the school system suits people who are good at teaching adults who chose to be there, and who can tolerate a timetable assembled from several part-time commitments.
We carry no verified training length for Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
$49,100 to $77,690 — 1.6x, or $2,382 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors is the bottom of it rather than the middle.
Even the 25th percentile pays $49,100, $920 more than the $50,020 typical American job and $23.60 an hour. The floor, not the median, is the strongest financial argument for Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors.
Avoid it if you need one employer and a full timetable; this work is frequently assembled from several part-time positions.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 37,310 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
1.6x between $49,100 and $77,690 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $61,540 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.
In cash terms the middle half of Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors runs $49,100 to $77,690 — $28,590 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $61,540.
The 75th percentile is $77,690. Reaching it from the $61,540 midpoint is $16,150 a year; reaching it from the $49,100 that the bottom quarter of Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors earn is $28,590.
The climb from $61,540 to $77,690 is $16,150; the drop to $49,100 is $12,440. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors is $29.58 an hour. The quarters sit at $23.60 and $37.35, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors. The self-employed are excluded, so $61,540 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $61,540 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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