Postsecondary Teachers
Income Percentile Results
Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 38.6th and 49th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 1,094,971 Postsecondary Teachers.
50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $66,28975th Percentile: $98,908
95th Percentile: $193,393
99th Percentile: $426,599
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Income Percentile Stats
- To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $426,599 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
- To be in the top 5% for this age range, your household would need an income of $193,393 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
Income of Postsecondary Teachers by Highest Education Level
Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:- Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 18.5th and 28.2th percentiles.
- Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 24.5th and 32.9th percentiles.
- Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 49.5th and 62.5th percentiles.
- Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 67.8th and 76.2th percentiles.
- Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 66.3th and 75th percentiles.
Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level
Highest Level of Education for Postsecondary Teachers:- Other (N/A or Less than HS): 0.5%
- HS Diploma / GED: 1.4%
- Associates Degree and Some College: 4.7%
- Bachelors Degree: 15.8%
- Masters Degree: 28.4%
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 5.7%
- Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 43.6%
Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors
- For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 54.1th and 66.2th percentiles.
- For Biology and Life Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 89.6th and 93.1th percentiles.
- For Education Administration and Teaching undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 58.6th and 69.5th percentiles.
- For Engineering undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 70.6th and 75.3th percentiles.
- For Physical Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 87.7th and 91.9th percentiles.
- For Medical and Health Sciences and Services undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 55.6th and 67.8th percentiles.
- For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 65.3th and 73.4th percentiles.
- For Fine Arts undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 59th and 70th percentiles.
- For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 73.6th and 81.9th percentiles.
- For English Language, Literature, and Composition undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 68.3th and 76.5th percentiles.
Treemap of Undergraduate Majors
Methodology and Assumptions
This data was sourced from the person-level data recorded by the American Communities Survey. The version of the survey used was the most recent 5 year revision for data recorded from 2013-2017. These results represent 1,094,971 Postsecondary Teachers. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 2200 to read more about the occupation codes that the ACS and Census use. These results were generated in R using raw data from the ACS and precalculated in a batch. This data includes all individual income for the survey respondent, so some of the people may have a wage job as well as other income sources. I did not limit to wage income, because many occupations have high portions of entrepreneurs (CEOs, doctors, tradespeople).
Exclusions and Filters Applied:- Filtered for people who reported working at least 30 hours a week.
- High School Graduates and GED graduates were original 2 separate categories that I combined.
- Anything below High School Graduates is combined into a separate category. I did not include these on the page for space reason but I can. The data has data for associate degree holders and some college and these values are mostly in between the high school and bachelors samples. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between some college and an associates degree.
- All ages are included and not separated. I did some initial testing and there is a difference if the data is split out by age, but I wasn't able to consolidate the data into a way that would make it fast to interact with and avoid being too complicated.
- There may be some confusion around a masters degree vs a professional degree beyond a masters. This was a distinction made in the original raw data that I decided to keep. Because the data is collected by polling people individually, some of the respondents may have mixed up the difference depending on how they phrased their response.
- Masters Degree : MBA, Masters in Something
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors Degree: Law Degree, Medical School, generally these degrees are credentials for specific careers.
- Doctoral Degree: PHd