Economics Teachers, Postsecondary

At $123,920 — $73,900 a year clear of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — Economics Teachers, Postsecondary sits at the top of what BLS publishes. Read the gate before the figure: at this level there is always one, and it is usually measured in years.

Employment as Economics Teachers, Postsecondary is 11,560 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.

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.

We carry no verified training length for Economics Teachers, Postsecondary — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

$81,930 separates the bottom quarter of Economics Teachers, Postsecondary at $86,840 from the top quarter at $168,770. At a 1.9x ratio the midpoint is a weak guide to your own first year — find out which end you would be entering at.

The 25th percentile is $86,840, $36,820 above the $50,020 typical American job. When even the floor is this high, the thing to investigate is the entry requirement rather than the pay.

Avoid it if you cannot afford a long training period that ends without a guaranteed permanent post.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 11,560 people employed as Economics Teachers, Postsecondary; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

From $86,840 to $168,770 at a ratio of 1.9x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $123,920 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.

Put in money rather than ratios: $86,840 at the 25th percentile, $123,920 at the midpoint, $168,770 at the 75th. $81,930 separates the quarter of Economics Teachers, Postsecondary at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

Getting to $168,770, the 75th percentile, is worth $44,850 a year more than the $123,920 midpoint and $81,930 more than the $86,840 a quarter of Economics Teachers, Postsecondary settle for.

The climb from $123,920 to $168,770 is $44,850; the drop to $86,840 is $37,080. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Economics Teachers, Postsecondary and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Economics Teachers, Postsecondary is $59.57 an hour. The quarters sit at $41.75 and $81.13, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.