Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education

At $72,040 against a $50,020 midpoint, Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education pays $22,020 a year more than the typical American job — $10.58 an hour. Nothing pays that much more for free, and the thing it is paid for is what you should be reading about.

1,065,210 people are employed as Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education, which puts it among the largest occupations in the United States. At this scale you are never short of a vacancy and never scarce, and the second fact is why the first one is cheap.

This work suits people who can plan a year, deliver it daily and adjust it hourly, in front of an audience that has no obligation to be interested.

No verified preparation time is on file for Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education. 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.

A quarter earn below $59,980 and a quarter above $92,570: a 1.5x ratio, $32,590 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.

At $59,980, or $28.83 an hour, the 25th percentile sits $9,960 above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Occupations with floors this high almost always have a requirement holding them there.

Avoid it if you could not absorb the hours outside the timetable, which are real and unpaid.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 1,065,210 people employed as Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education; 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.

1.5x between $59,980 and $92,570 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $72,040 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.

Put in money rather than ratios: $59,980 at the 25th percentile, $72,040 at the midpoint, $92,570 at the 75th. $32,590 separates the quarter of Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

Getting to $92,570, the 75th percentile, is worth $20,530 a year more than the $72,040 midpoint and $32,590 more than the $59,980 a quarter of Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education settle for.

The distance from the midpoint up to $92,570 is $20,530 — well over the $12,060 down to $59,980. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education earns, and half the field is in that upper half.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education is $34.63 an hour. The quarters sit at $28.83 and $44.50, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.