Occupation / job
Self-Enrichment Teachers
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 $46,800, Self-Enrichment Teachers lands just under the $50,020 national midpoint — $3,220 apart, inside the range a single promotion or a move between states closes.
332,110 people work as Self-Enrichment Teachers — large enough that the occupation is always hiring somewhere and always losing people somewhere else. Constant demand is security; it is rarely leverage.
Instructing outside the school system suits people who are good at teaching adults who chose to be there, and who can tolerate a timetable assembled from several part-time commitments.
We carry no verified training length for Self-Enrichment Teachers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter of the field earns under $36,380 and a quarter over $63,210: $26,830 between them, a ratio of 1.7x. Wide enough that the first offer you get tells you more about your prospects than the median does.
The 25th percentile is $36,380 — $17.49 an hour, and $13,640 below the $50,020 typical American job. Entry-level in this field means that number, not the midpoint, so budget against it.
Avoid it if you need one employer and a full timetable; this work is frequently assembled from several part-time positions.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 332,110 figure counts people already working as Self-Enrichment Teachers, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
From $36,380 to $63,210 at a ratio of 1.7x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $46,800 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.
The middle half of this field earns between $36,380 and $63,210. That is $26,830 of range, with $46,800 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $63,210. Reaching it from the $46,800 midpoint is $16,410 a year; reaching it from the $36,380 that the bottom quarter of Self-Enrichment Teachers earn is $26,830.
The distance from the midpoint up to $63,210 is $16,410 — well over the $10,420 down to $36,380. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Self-Enrichment Teachers earns, and half the field is in that upper half.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Self-Enrichment Teachers is $22.50 an hour. The quarters sit at $17.49 and $30.38, 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 Self-Enrichment Teachers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $46,800 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $46,800 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Self-Enrichment Teachers, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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