Occupation / job
Career/Technical Education 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
The $63,820 midpoint sits $6.63 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 28% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary.
With 114,110 in the occupation, Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary is a big field with a visible internal market. Big fields reward moving: the pay you can negotiate on arrival usually beats what the annual review will give you for staying.
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 Career/Technical Education 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 below $50,320 and a quarter above $82,360: a 1.6x ratio, $32,040 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.
The bottom quarter of Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary still clears $50,320 — $300 above the $50,020 typical job. A high floor is the most valuable and least advertised property an occupation can have.
Avoid it if you cannot afford a long training period that ends without a guaranteed permanent post.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 114,110 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
A 1.6x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $63,820 as where you might be after years in Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary, and $50,320 as where you would start.
The middle half of this field earns between $50,320 and $82,360. That is $32,040 of range, with $63,820 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Between $50,320 and $82,360 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $63,820. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $18,540; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $32,040.
$18,540 separates $63,820 from the $82,360 top quarter, while only $13,500 separates it from $50,320. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary is $30.68 an hour. The quarters sit at $24.19 and $39.59, 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 Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary. The self-employed are excluded, so $63,820 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary, the hourly figure is $63,820 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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