Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

At $75,870 against a $50,020 midpoint, Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary pays $25,850 a year more than the typical American job — $12.42 an hour. Nothing pays that much more for free, and the thing it is paid for is what you should be reading about.

With 2,770 employed nationally, Family and Consumer Sciences 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 2,770 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 $57,410 and a quarter over $99,320: $41,910 between them, a ratio of 1.7x. Wide enough that the first offer you get tells you more about your prospects than the median does.

The bottom quarter of Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary earns $57,410 or more — $7,390 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Three quarters of the field is well paid and the last quarter is still paid better than most of the country.

Avoid it if you need a permanent post at the end; a great deal of this teaching is done on contracts that are not.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 2,770 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.

From $57,410 to $99,320 at a ratio of 1.7x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $75,870 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.

Put in money rather than ratios: $57,410 at the 25th percentile, $75,870 at the midpoint, $99,320 at the 75th. $41,910 separates the quarter of Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

Between $57,410 and $99,320 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $75,870. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $23,450; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $41,910.

From $75,870 it is $18,460 down to the bottom quarter and $23,450 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $27.60 at the bottom quarter, $36.47 at the midpoint, $47.75 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.