Occupation / job
Biological Science 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
$84,620 against a $50,020 national midpoint is 69% more, or $16.63 an hour. Almost nothing pays this much more without a long, expensive or restricted route in — read that route before reading the number again.
50,190 people are employed in this work. Big enough for a real market in every major metro, small enough that experience in Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary is still a distinguishing thing to have.
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 Biological Science 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
A quarter earn under $64,350, a quarter over $126,770: $5,201 a month between them at a 2.0x ratio. Planning around the midpoint of a spread this wide is planning around a number very few people in Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary actually earn.
The bottom quarter of Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary earns $64,350 or more — $14,330 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Three quarters of the field is well paid and the last quarter is still paid better than most of the country.
Avoid it if you need a permanent post at the end; a great deal of this teaching is done on contracts that are not.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 50,190 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
At 2.0x the range from $64,350 to $126,770 is doing more explaining than the job title is. Something sorts people across that distance — sector, speciality, or who employs them — and finding out what it is matters more than the $84,620 midpoint.
The middle half of this field earns between $64,350 and $126,770. That is $62,420 of range, with $84,620 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $126,770, the 75th percentile, is worth $42,150 a year more than the $84,620 midpoint and $62,420 more than the $64,350 a quarter of Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary settle for.
The upper half of the middle range — $84,620 to $126,770, or $42,150 — is far longer than the lower half at $20,270. In a shape like this an average would flatter Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary considerably, and would describe nobody.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary is $40.68 an hour. The quarters sit at $30.93 and $60.94, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $84,620 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
The hourly number on this page is $84,620 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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