Occupation / job
Communications 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
Communications Teachers, Postsecondary pays $78,580 at the midpoint, 57% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
At 29,420 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.
Postsecondary teaching suits people who want to keep working on a subject for decades, and who accept that the route in runs through years of training with no guarantee of a permanent post at the end.
No verified preparation time is on file for Communications 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
From $61,250 to $102,450 is $3,433 a month, or 1.7x bottom quarter to top. An ordinary spread like this is mostly years and geography; assume you enter near the bottom of it and that closing the gap takes a career rather than a move.
At $61,250, or $29.44 an hour, the 25th percentile sits $11,230 above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Occupations with floors this high almost always have a requirement holding them there.
Avoid it if you need a permanent post at the end; a great deal of this teaching is done on contracts that are not.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 29,420 figure counts people already working as Communications Teachers, Postsecondary, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
A 1.7x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $78,580 as where you might be after years in Communications Teachers, Postsecondary, and $61,250 as where you would start.
Put in money rather than ratios: $61,250 at the 25th percentile, $78,580 at the midpoint, $102,450 at the 75th. $41,200 separates the quarter of Communications Teachers, Postsecondary at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Between $61,250 and $102,450 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $78,580. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $23,870; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $41,200.
The climb from $78,580 to $102,450 is $23,870, against $17,330 down to $61,250. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Communications Teachers, Postsecondary is larger than the realistic downside.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $37.77 at the midpoint for Communications Teachers, Postsecondary, $29.44 at the 25th percentile and $49.25 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
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 Communications Teachers, Postsecondary for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $78,580 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Communications Teachers, Postsecondary, the hourly figure is $78,580 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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