Occupation / job
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
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
At $107,310 against a $50,020 national midpoint, Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary pays 115% more than the typical American job — $57,290 a year of difference. Read the entry requirements before the number.
National employment is 221,270. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.
These posts suit people who genuinely enjoy explaining a field to people encountering it for the first time, every year, to a new set of them.
We carry no verified training length for Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
From under $75,690 to over $210,370 — $134,680 between the quarters, a 2.8x ratio. A range that wide is not one job with variation in it; it is a label covering several different jobs, and the entry-level version is the one you should cost.
The bottom quarter of this field earns $75,690 — $36.38 an hour, $25,670 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.
Avoid it if you need a permanent post at the end; a great deal of this teaching is done on contracts that are not.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 221,270 people employed as Health Specialties 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.
What the spread tells you
2.8x is a very wide spread. In occupations shaped like this the useful question is not what Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary pays but what the well-paid version of it is, because $210,370 and $75,690 are reached by different routes.
Put in money rather than ratios: $75,690 at the 25th percentile, $107,310 at the midpoint, $210,370 at the 75th. $134,680 separates the quarter of Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $210,370, the 75th percentile, is worth $103,060 a year more than the $107,310 midpoint and $134,680 more than the $75,690 a quarter of Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary settle for.
The top quarter of Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary begins $103,060 above the $107,310 midpoint, while the bottom quarter starts only $31,620 below it. A range stretched that far in one direction is the signature of a field where a small group earns a great deal more than the middle does.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary is $51.59 an hour. The quarters sit at $36.38 and $101.13, 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 Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary. The self-employed are excluded, so $107,310 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary, the hourly figure is $107,310 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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