Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary salary

SOC 25-1071 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$107,310

per year, nationally

Middle half

$75,690–$210,370

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

221,270

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+17.3%

27,400 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$59,270$322,020

10th: $59,270
25th: $75,690
Median: $107,310
75th: $210,370
90th: $322,020

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Doctoral or professional degree
Related work experience: Less than 5 years
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where health specialties teachers, postsecondary earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Utah	$168,060	98.9	3,520	1.43×
2	District of Columbia	$167,520	109.9	1,460	1.46×
3	California	$165,110	110.7	17,350	0.67×
4	Washington	$137,520	107.0	4,510	0.89×
5	Mississippi	$137,220	87.0	1,890	1.14×
6	Colorado	$136,930	103.1	7,800	1.91×
7	New Mexico	$134,600	92.2	1,430	1.15×
8	Massachusetts	$134,520	105.8	10,250	1.98×
9	New York	$131,220	107.9	21,410	1.55×
10	Missouri	$130,490	90.8	5,700	1.37×
11	Iowa	$128,490	87.8	3,230	1.45×
12	Louisiana	$125,130	88.2	2,250	0.82×
13	Arkansas	$124,890	86.9	2,080	1.12×
14	Michigan	$108,970	96.2	3,430	0.55×
15	Maryland	$108,160	105.0	7,460	1.90×
16	Texas	$108,150	97.1	18,960	0.95×
17	Pennsylvania	$107,920	97.6	14,890	1.73×
18	Vermont	$107,500	98.0	1,170	2.72×
19	Georgia	$106,960	96.3	4,860	0.70×
20	Virginia	$106,880	101.1	5,040	0.86×
21	Delaware	$105,780	99.8	260	0.38×
22	Rhode Island	$103,780	102.3	480	0.67×
23	Minnesota	$103,510	98.6	3,050	0.73×
24	North Carolina	$103,220	94.3	9,240	1.31×
25	Oregon	$103,180	103.4	2,170	0.78×
26	Maine	$103,090	97.0	730	0.80×
27	Idaho	$101,910	95.5	—	—
28	Montana	$101,220	94.6	370	0.51×
29	North Dakota	$100,760	89.0	510	0.83×
30	Arizona	$99,000	100.7	3,620	0.79×
31	Tennessee	$98,870	91.9	4,400	0.94×
32	Indiana	$98,170	93.3	4,880	1.07×
33	New Jersey	$96,630	108.8	2,960	0.48×
34	Wyoming	$93,480	92.7	230	0.58×
35	Illinois	$92,860	100.0	7,740	0.89×
36	Alabama	$92,310	88.8	3,360	1.12×
37	Florida	$88,710	103.4	8,500	0.60×
38	Kansas	$86,700	90.1	1,060	0.52×
39	New Hampshire	$85,250	104.2	430	0.44×
40	Kentucky	$83,680	90.2	1,380	0.48×
41	South Carolina	$82,480	93.7	1,030	0.31×
42	Wisconsin	$81,500	94.1	4,410	1.05×
43	Hawaii	$81,480	110.0	290	0.33×
44	Nebraska	$80,960	90.1	2,760	1.89×
45	South Dakota	$78,720	88.6	270	0.41×
46	Nevada	$77,160	100.0	1,230	0.56×
47	Oklahoma	$76,450	87.8	950	0.39×
48	Ohio	$74,720	92.8	5,670	0.72×
49	Alaska	$73,890	102.4	—	—
50	West Virginia	$60,300	89.5	2,400	2.40×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where health specialties teachers, postsecondary wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for health specialties teachers, postsecondary

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$357,220	115.6	4,340	1.28×
2	Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	$214,790	89.4	1,560	3.06×
3	Greenville, NC	$181,290	88.4	700	6.05×
4	Albuquerque, NM	$178,290	95.5	1,270	2.21×
5	Jackson, MS	$175,090	89.0	1,330	3.46×
6	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$168,720	105.8	6,710	2.93×
7	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$168,060	100.9	2,790	2.38×
8	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$164,860	111.1	3,870	1.30×
9	College Station-Bryan, TX	$164,660	91.0	750	3.94×
10	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$164,450	108.3	7,830	2.03×
11	Wichita, KS	$163,230	88.9	260	0.60×
12	Ithaca, NY	$159,720	103.3	1,140	16.69×
13	Champaign-Urbana, IL	$139,810	92.7	210	1.39×
14	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	$139,470	95.0	700	2.28×
15	Fresno, CA	$138,400	102.2	140	0.21×
16	Ann Arbor, MI	$136,600	100.9	—	—
17	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$136,370	106.4	360	0.15×
18	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$135,670	108.9	2,560	0.57×
19	Charlottesville, VA	$134,810	99.1	—	—
20	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$134,590	113.6	8,410	0.94×
21	Corvallis, OR	$132,700	104.0	170	3.05×
22	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$131,730	98.6	—	—
23	St. Louis, MO-IL	$131,560	95.1	—	—
24	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	$131,040	98.7	380	0.79×
25	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$130,880	100.1	3,370	0.82×
26	Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT	$129,560	98.2	350	0.82×
27	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$129,400	98.1	1,210	0.66×
28	Amherst Town-Northampton, MA	$129,330	100.2	250	2.70×
29	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$128,960	114.2	4,090	1.02×
30	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	$128,860	92.2	1,630	1.88×
31	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$128,830	100.3	260	0.70×
32	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$128,090	112.6	15,040	1.11×
33	Missoula, MT	$126,330	96.4	170	1.83×
34	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$125,830	94.7	1,120	0.70×
35	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$125,510	97.6	—	—
36	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$123,500	105.4	1,460	0.85×
37	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$123,200	109.4	250	0.65×
38	Portland-South Portland, ME	$122,680	101.9	—	—
39	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$119,470	100.9	60	0.12×
40	Mankato, MN	$116,010	91.0	50	0.63×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where health specialties teachers, postsecondary wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.

Postsecondary Teachers, All Other$77,640
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary$63,820
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary$78,620
Business Teachers, Postsecondary$99,080
Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary$80,250
Education Teachers, Postsecondary$75,350
English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary$78,760
Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary$84,620

Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary salary

What the range looks like

Getting in

Where health specialties teachers, postsecondary earn the most

Best paying metro areas for health specialties teachers, postsecondary

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