Occupation / job
Health Education Specialists
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
The $64,070 midpoint sits $6.75 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 28% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Health Education Specialists.
65,690 people are employed in this work. Big enough for a real market in every major metro, small enough that experience in Health Education Specialists is still a distinguishing thing to have.
This work suits people who can be useful to someone inside a system that is not resourced to fix their situation, and who can measure a good day in something other than resolution.
No verified preparation time is on file for Health Education Specialists. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
The quarters sit at $50,620 and $87,130 — 1.7x, or $3,042 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.
Even the 25th percentile pays $50,620, $600 more than the $50,020 typical American job and $24.33 an hour. The floor, not the median, is the strongest financial argument for Health Education Specialists.
Avoid it if you need to fix things. Most of this caseload cannot be fixed by anyone at your desk.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 65,690 figure counts people already working as Health Education Specialists, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
A ratio of 1.7x — $50,620 to $87,130 — is wide enough that specialising inside Health Education Specialists pays measurably. $64,070 is the middle of a range you can move within.
The middle half of this field earns between $50,620 and $87,130. That is $36,510 of range, with $64,070 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $87,130. Reaching it from the $64,070 midpoint is $23,060 a year; reaching it from the $50,620 that the bottom quarter of Health Education Specialists earn is $36,510.
It is $13,450 from $64,070 down to $50,620 but $23,060 up to $87,130. When a range leans this far upward, the interesting question is what puts someone in the top half, because the money is disproportionately there.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Health Education Specialists is $30.80 an hour. The quarters sit at $24.33 and $41.88, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Health Education Specialists. The self-employed are excluded, so $64,070 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $64,070 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Health Education Specialists, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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