Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary

$94,980 is $3,746 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Environmental 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.

With 6,690 employed nationally, Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary is a small occupation. Small occupations are quiet: few postings, slow turnover, and a real chance that the person you would replace is not going anywhere.

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.

How long it takes to become one of the 6,690 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.

A quarter of the field earns under $69,880 and a quarter over $126,900: $57,020 between them, a ratio of 1.8x. Wide enough that the first offer you get tells you more about your prospects than the median does.

At $69,880, or $33.59 an hour, the 25th percentile sits $19,860 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 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 6,690 people employed as Environmental Science 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.

At 1.8x, the distribution for Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary is open enough that specialisation starts to pay. The distance from $69,880 to $126,900 is mostly what you can do that others in the same title cannot.

The middle half of this field earns between $69,880 and $126,900. That is $57,020 of range, with $94,980 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Between $69,880 and $126,900 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $94,980. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $31,920; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $57,020.

The climb from $94,980 to $126,900 is $31,920; the drop to $69,880 is $25,100. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Environmental Science 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 Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary is $45.66 an hour. The quarters sit at $33.59 and $61.00, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.