Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary

A midpoint of $77,270 against $50,020 means Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary pays $2,270 a month more than the typical American job. At that distance the entry requirement is the real subject, because it is what the premium is buying.

Employment as Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary is 12,630 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.

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 Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

A quarter earn below $59,990 and a quarter above $101,450: a 1.7x ratio, $41,460 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.

Even the bottom quarter of Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary earns $59,990 — $28.84 an hour and $9,970 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.

No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 12,630 figure counts people already working as Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.

A 1.7x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $77,270 as where you might be after years in Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary, and $59,990 as where you would start.

Put in money rather than ratios: $59,990 at the 25th percentile, $77,270 at the midpoint, $101,450 at the 75th. $41,460 separates the quarter of Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

The 75th percentile is $101,450. Reaching it from the $77,270 midpoint is $24,180 a year; reaching it from the $59,990 that the bottom quarter of Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary earn is $41,460.

$24,180 separates $77,270 from the $101,450 top quarter, while only $17,280 separates it from $59,990. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Recreation and Fitness Studies 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: $28.84 at the bottom quarter, $37.14 at the midpoint, $48.77 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.