Occupation / job
Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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
Postsecondary Teachers, All Other pays $77,640 at the midpoint, 55% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
With 149,840 in the occupation, Postsecondary Teachers, All Other is a big field with a visible internal market. Big fields reward moving: the pay you can negotiate on arrival usually beats what the annual review will give you for staying.
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.
How long it takes to become one of the 149,840 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.
Who should not do this
$47,480 separates the bottom quarter of Postsecondary Teachers, All Other at $59,290 from the top quarter at $106,770. At a 1.8x ratio the midpoint is a weak guide to your own first year — find out which end you would be entering at.
Even the bottom quarter of Postsecondary Teachers, All Other earns $59,290 — $28.50 an hour and $9,270 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. 149,840 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 1.8x — $59,290 to $106,770 — is wide enough that specialising inside Postsecondary Teachers, All Other pays measurably. $77,640 is the middle of a range you can move within.
In cash terms the middle half of Postsecondary Teachers, All Other runs $59,290 to $106,770 — $47,480 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $77,640.
Between $59,290 and $106,770 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $77,640. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $29,130; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $47,480.
The distance from the midpoint up to $106,770 is $29,130 — well over the $18,350 down to $59,290. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Postsecondary Teachers, All Other earns, and half the field is in that upper half.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Postsecondary Teachers, All Other is $37.32 an hour. The quarters sit at $28.50 and $51.33, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
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 Postsecondary Teachers, All Other for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $77,640 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $77,640 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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