Occupation / job
Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary
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
At $99,650 against a $50,020 national midpoint, Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary pays 99% more than the typical American job — $49,630 a year of difference. Read the entry requirements before the number.
Employment as Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary stands at 5,240. That is small enough that your local market may have a dozen posts in total; mobility will matter more to your earnings than seniority does.
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.
No verified preparation time is on file for Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
The quarters sit at $75,200 and $128,750 — 1.7x, or $4,462 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.
Even at the 25th percentile Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary pays $75,200, $25,180 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Almost the entire distribution sits above the typical American wage, which is rare and worth weighing against the entry cost.
Avoid it if the administrative and committee load would spoil the subject for you, because it is a large share of the week.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 5,240 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
From $75,200 to $128,750 at a ratio of 1.7x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $99,650 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.
The middle half of this field earns between $75,200 and $128,750. That is $53,550 of range, with $99,650 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Between $75,200 and $128,750 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $99,650. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $29,100; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $53,550.
From $99,650 it is $24,450 down to the bottom quarter and $29,100 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $36.15 at the bottom quarter, $47.90 at the midpoint, $61.89 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $99,650 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary, the hourly figure is $99,650 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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