Occupation / job
Nursing Instructors and 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 $80,250 against a $50,020 national midpoint, Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary pays 60% more than the typical American job — $30,230 a year of difference. Read the entry requirements before the number.
77,960 people are employed as Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary. At that scale every large metro has a real market, and the difference between a good year and a bad one is usually which employer you are at rather than whether anyone is hiring.
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 Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
$63,510 to $101,090 — 1.6x, or $3,131 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary is the bottom of it rather than the middle.
Even the bottom quarter of Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary earns $63,510 — $30.53 an hour and $13,490 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.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 77,960 people employed as Nursing Instructors and 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
A 1.6x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $80,250 as where you might be after years in Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary, and $63,510 as where you would start.
Put in money rather than ratios: $63,510 at the 25th percentile, $80,250 at the midpoint, $101,090 at the 75th. $37,580 separates the quarter of Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $101,090, the 75th percentile, is worth $20,840 a year more than the $80,250 midpoint and $37,580 more than the $63,510 a quarter of Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary settle for.
The climb from $80,250 to $101,090 is $20,840; the drop to $63,510 is $16,740. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $30.53 at the bottom quarter, $38.58 at the midpoint, $48.60 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
The $80,250 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 Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary, the hourly figure is $80,250 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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