Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education

The $64,370 midpoint sits $6.89 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 29% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education.

620,090 people do this work. An occupation this large has a published, well-known going rate — which means less scope to be underpaid and less scope to negotiate above it.

School teaching suits people who can manage thirty people at once and still notice the one who is struggling, every day, for a whole year at a time.

How long it takes to become one of the 620,090 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.

Between $58,530 and $80,490 there is $21,960, a ratio of 1.4x. Tight distributions are predictable, and predictable cuts both ways: little risk of being badly underpaid, little prospect of doing much better.

The bottom quarter of Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education earns $58,530 or more — $8,510 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 could not absorb the hours outside the timetable, which are real and unpaid.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 620,090 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.

$58,530 to $80,490 is a 1.4x range. Ranges this tight usually mean the employer set is homogeneous — the same kind of organisation paying the same kind of scale — so the lever you have is geography rather than employer.

Put in money rather than ratios: $58,530 at the 25th percentile, $64,370 at the midpoint, $80,490 at the 75th. $21,960 separates the quarter of Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

The 75th percentile is $80,490. Reaching it from the $64,370 midpoint is $16,120 a year; reaching it from the $58,530 that the bottom quarter of Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education earn is $21,960.

The top quarter of Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education begins $16,120 above the $64,370 midpoint, while the bottom quarter starts only $5,840 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.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $28.13 at the bottom quarter, $30.94 at the midpoint, $38.69 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.