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Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary

$96,980

Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.

$46.62

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.

$66,600–$131,320

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

$96,980 is $3,913 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.

At 35,480 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.

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 Computer 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

At 2.0x, from $66,600 to $131,320, the two halves of Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary are not really doing the same job. $5,393 a month separates them, and something other than the title explains it.

Even the bottom quarter of Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary earns $66,600 — $32.01 an hour and $16,580 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.

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. 35,480 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 $66,600 to $131,320 at 2.0x: something inside this occupation sorts people a long way apart. Identifying what it is — sector, employer, credential — is worth more than any general advice about Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary.

In cash terms the middle half of Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary runs $66,600 to $131,320 — $64,720 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $96,980.

Getting to $131,320, the 75th percentile, is worth $34,340 a year more than the $96,980 midpoint and $64,720 more than the $66,600 a quarter of Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary settle for.

$96,980 sits almost exactly in the middle of its own range — $30,380 above the bottom quarter, $34,340 below the top one. A symmetric distribution like this is the case where the median genuinely does describe the typical person.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $46.62 at the midpoint for Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary, $32.01 at the 25th percentile and $63.13 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.

What these figures are, and what they are not

Employers reported these wages for people already working as Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary. The self-employed are excluded, so $96,980 does not describe an independent doing the same work.

The hourly number on this page is $96,980 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.

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