Occupation / job
Library Science 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 $80,340 against a $50,020 national midpoint, Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary pays 61% more than the typical American job — $30,320 a year of difference. Read the entry requirements before the number.
National employment of 3,630 makes this a small field. Small fields are relationship markets: the people already in Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary tend to know who is hiring before the posting exists.
Postsecondary teaching suits people who want to keep working on a subject for decades, and who accept that the route in runs through years of training with no guarantee of a permanent post at the end.
We carry no verified training length for Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
$64,080 to $100,910 — 1.6x, or $3,069 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary is the bottom of it rather than the middle.
Even the bottom quarter of Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary earns $64,080 — $30.80 an hour and $14,060 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.
Avoid it if you cannot afford a long training period that ends without a guaranteed permanent post.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 3,630 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.
What the spread tells you
1.6x between $64,080 and $100,910 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $80,340 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.
In cash terms the middle half of Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary runs $64,080 to $100,910 — $36,830 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $80,340.
Between $64,080 and $100,910 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $80,340. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $20,570; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $36,830.
The climb from $80,340 to $100,910 is $20,570; the drop to $64,080 is $16,260. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Library 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 Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary is $38.62 an hour. The quarters sit at $30.80 and $48.51, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $80,340 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary, the hourly figure is $80,340 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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