Occupation / job
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement 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 $76,590 against a $50,020 midpoint, Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary pays $26,570 a year more than the typical American job — $12.77 an hour. Nothing pays that much more for free, and the thing it is paid for is what you should be reading about.
Employment as Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary is 13,150 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.
These posts suit people who genuinely enjoy explaining a field to people encountering it for the first time, every year, to a new set of them.
How long it takes to become one of the 13,150 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
$60,020 to $100,870 — 1.7x, or $3,404 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary is the bottom of it rather than the middle.
Even the bottom quarter of Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary earns $60,020 — $28.85 an hour and $10,000 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.
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You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 13,150 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 1.7x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $76,590 as where you might be after years in Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary, and $60,020 as where you would start.
Put in money rather than ratios: $60,020 at the 25th percentile, $76,590 at the midpoint, $100,870 at the 75th. $40,850 separates the quarter of Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $100,870, the 75th percentile, is worth $24,280 a year more than the $76,590 midpoint and $40,850 more than the $60,020 a quarter of Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary settle for.
The climb from $76,590 to $100,870 is $24,280, against $16,570 down to $60,020. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary is larger than the realistic downside.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary is $36.82 an hour. The quarters sit at $28.85 and $48.49, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $76,590 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 $76,590 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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