Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary

$105,870 against a $50,020 national midpoint is 112% more, or $26.85 an hour. Almost nothing pays this much more without a long, expensive or restricted route in — read that route before reading the number again.

This is a large occupation: 328,330 people work as Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary. Large occupations hire continuously and replace continuously, and the pay reflects both facts.

Management of this kind suits people who still want to be close to the operation, since the credibility of the role rests on knowing what the work actually involves.

We carry no verified training length for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

$86,040 to $134,630 — 1.6x, or $4,049 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary is the bottom of it rather than the middle.

Even at the 25th percentile Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary pays $86,040, $36,020 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Almost the entire distribution sits above the typical American wage, which is rare and worth weighing against the entry cost.

Avoid it if you would find it hard to manage people you used to work beside as an equal.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 328,330 people employed as Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary; 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.

At 1.6x between $86,040 and $134,630 this is a normally shaped occupation. $105,870 is what the middle of Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.

In cash terms the middle half of Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary runs $86,040 to $134,630 — $48,590 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $105,870.

Between $86,040 and $134,630 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $105,870. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $28,760; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $48,590.

$28,760 separates $105,870 from the $134,630 top quarter, while only $19,830 separates it from $86,040. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $50.89 at the midpoint for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary, $41.36 at the 25th percentile and $64.72 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.