Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

$98,700 against a $50,020 national midpoint is 97% more, or $23.40 an hour. Almost nothing pays this much more without a long, expensive or restricted route in — read that route before reading the number again.

8,920 people work as Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.

This work suits people who want to spend a career inside one subject, teaching it while contributing to it, and who can tolerate an institution whose incentives do not always favour either.

How long it takes to become one of the 8,920 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

A quarter of the field earns under $66,410 and a quarter over $126,850: $60,440 between them, a ratio of 1.9x. Wide enough that the first offer you get tells you more about your prospects than the median does.

Even the bottom quarter of Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary earns $66,410 — $31.92 an hour and $16,390 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.

Avoid it if you need a permanent post at the end; a great deal of this teaching is done on contracts that are not.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 8,920 people employed as Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

A ratio of 1.9x — $66,410 to $126,850 — is wide enough that specialising inside Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary pays measurably. $98,700 is the middle of a range you can move within.

In cash terms the middle half of Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary runs $66,410 to $126,850 — $60,440 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $98,700.

The 75th percentile is $126,850. Reaching it from the $98,700 midpoint is $28,150 a year; reaching it from the $66,410 that the bottom quarter of Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary earn is $60,440.

There is $32,290 between $66,410 and $98,700, and $28,150 between $98,700 and $126,850. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary at the bottom of it.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary is $47.45 an hour. The quarters sit at $31.92 and $60.98, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.