Occupation / job
Mathematical 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
Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary pays $79,940 at the midpoint, 60% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
Employment stands at 47,670. Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary is common enough to be recruited for continuously and specific enough that the experience travels — the combination that makes changing employer a working pay rise.
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.
No verified preparation time is on file for Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary. 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 $61,690 and $105,000 — 1.7x, or $3,609 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 bottom quarter of Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary earns $61,690 — $29.65 an hour and $11,670 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.
Avoid it if the administrative and committee load would spoil the subject for you, because it is a large share of the week.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 47,670 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
A ratio of 1.7x — $61,690 to $105,000 — is wide enough that specialising inside Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary pays measurably. $79,940 is the middle of a range you can move within.
In cash terms the middle half of Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary runs $61,690 to $105,000 — $43,310 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $79,940.
Between $61,690 and $105,000 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $79,940. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $25,060; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $43,310.
$25,060 separates $79,940 from the $105,000 top quarter, while only $18,250 separates it from $61,690. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $29.65 at the bottom quarter, $38.43 at the midpoint, $50.48 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $79,940 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary, the hourly figure is $79,940 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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