Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors salary

SOC 25-3011 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$61,540

per year, nationally

Middle half

$49,100–$77,690

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

37,310

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

-13.7%

3,900 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.

$41,810$98,030

10th: $41,810
25th: $49,100
Median: $61,540
75th: $77,690
90th: $98,030

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Bachelor's degree
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: None

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

Where adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors 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	California	$102,030	110.7	1,660	0.38×
2	New Jersey	$81,100	108.8	1,350	1.31×
3	Delaware	$78,600	99.8	200	1.70×
4	New York	$78,010	107.9	2,810	1.21×
5	Minnesota	$76,800	98.6	2,880	4.06×
6	Connecticut	$72,180	103.6	410	1.00×
7	Washington	$69,990	107.0	1,310	1.54×
8	Louisiana	$66,870	88.2	100	0.21×
9	Oregon	$65,700	103.4	510	1.08×
10	West Virginia	$65,050	89.5	250	1.49×
11	Wisconsin	$64,980	94.1	1,050	1.49×
12	Virginia	$64,540	101.1	700	0.71×
13	New Hampshire	$64,440	104.2	50	0.31×
14	North Dakota	$63,820	89.0	180	1.75×
15	South Carolina	$62,940	93.7	480	0.88×
16	District of Columbia	$62,940	109.9	570	3.36×
17	Vermont	$62,500	98.0	70	0.89×
18	Illinois	$62,370	100.0	1,970	1.34×
19	Massachusetts	$62,290	105.8	1,420	1.63×
20	Arizona	$61,750	100.7	570	0.74×
21	Tennessee	$60,340	91.9	240	0.30×
22	Maryland	$59,950	105.0	450	0.67×
23	Michigan	$59,900	96.2	560	0.53×
24	Florida	$58,920	103.4	3,670	1.54×
25	Maine	$58,880	97.0	330	2.13×
26	Indiana	$58,660	93.3	650	0.85×
27	Rhode Island	$57,690	102.3	—	—
28	Pennsylvania	$57,230	97.6	790	0.54×
29	Montana	$56,500	94.6	110	0.90×
30	Wyoming	$52,060	92.7	100	1.41×
31	Kansas	$52,030	90.1	160	0.47×
32	Oklahoma	$51,840	87.8	300	0.72×
33	North Carolina	$51,810	94.3	3,720	3.14×
34	Missouri	$51,770	90.8	620	0.88×
35	Colorado	$51,170	103.1	820	1.19×
36	Idaho	$50,040	95.5	270	1.31×
37	Mississippi	$49,900	87.0	240	0.87×
38	Utah	$49,680	98.9	60	0.13×
39	Texas	$49,490	97.1	1,830	0.54×
40	New Mexico	$49,170	92.2	210	1.00×
41	Nebraska	$49,040	90.1	130	0.52×
42	Nevada	$48,930	100.0	40	0.12×
43	Alabama	$48,870	88.8	470	0.92×
44	Iowa	$48,010	87.8	370	0.98×
45	Georgia	$47,540	96.3	470	0.40×
46	Ohio	$47,190	92.8	750	0.56×
47	Kentucky	$44,990	90.2	350	0.72×
48	Hawaii	$44,600	110.0	300	1.97×
49	Arkansas	$43,240	86.9	230	0.72×
50	South Dakota	$35,760	88.6	100	0.91×

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 adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors

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	Modesto, CA	$129,080	104.1	70	1.48×
2	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$119,590	106.4	140	0.35×
3	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$107,420	111.9	170	0.45×
4	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$105,820	115.6	320	0.56×
5	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$102,920	100.9	40	0.51×
6	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$98,860	113.6	600	0.40×
7	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$96,280	110.4	40	0.15×
8	Worcester, MA	$90,550	102.5	150	1.77×
9	Vineland, NJ	$87,810	96.0	80	5.35×
10	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$84,870	105.6	30	1.38×
11	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$83,980	112.6	2,750	1.21×
12	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$83,500	97.9	200	1.10×
13	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$83,090	100.4	40	1.38×
14	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$81,110	102.7	120	0.84×
15	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$79,810	110.5	60	0.83×
16	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$79,210	104.8	2,040	4.35×
17	Bellingham, WA	$78,250	103.3	40	1.93×
18	Bismarck, ND	$78,140	91.0	50	3.12×
19	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$78,120	103.2	60	0.99×
20	La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN	$78,110	91.8	60	2.93×
21	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$78,010	99.6	110	1.04×
22	Spartanburg, SC	$76,430	91.1	40	0.99×
23	St. Cloud, MN	$76,400	87.6	90	3.53×
24	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$74,460	109.4	130	2.04×
25	Duluth, MN-WI	$74,320	88.8	100	3.41×
26	Tucson, AZ	$73,480	96.9	40	0.48×
27	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	$73,430	98.9	50	1.27×
28	Greeley, CO	$72,530	100.2	50	1.78×
29	St. Louis, MO-IL	$71,810	95.1	430	1.33×
30	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$71,630	111.1	730	1.46×
31	Rochester, MN	$71,620	90.8	120	3.96×
32	Springfield, IL	$71,180	92.7	40	1.67×
33	New Haven, CT	$70,780	104.6	80	1.13×
34	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$70,520	100.1	40	1.24×
35	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$70,130	105.8	310	0.79×
36	Springfield, MA	$66,870	96.1	110	2.20×
37	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	$66,870	92.6	40	0.35×
38	Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	$66,420	91.9	40	0.75×
39	Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI	$64,980	96.0	30	1.88×
40	Colorado Springs, CO	$64,890	100.7	50	0.66×

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 adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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

Substitute Teachers, Short-Term$41,670
Self-Enrichment Teachers$46,800
Tutors$43,350
Teachers and Instructors, All Other$66,140

Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors salary

What the range looks like

Getting in

Where adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors earn the most

Best paying metro areas for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors

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