Special Education Teachers
Income Percentile Results
Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 62.7th and 76.8th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 245,965 Special Education Teachers.
50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $48,60775th Percentile: $63,160
95th Percentile: $95,000
99th Percentile: $127,663
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Income Percentile Stats
- To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $127,663 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 $95,000 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
Income of Special Education Teachers by Highest Education Level
Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:- Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 26.9th and 46.3th percentiles.
- Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 39.2th and 58.7th percentiles.
- Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 46.3th and 65.2th percentiles.
- Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 74.7th and 86.4th percentiles.
- Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 91.7th and 94.9th percentiles.
Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level
Highest Level of Education for Special Education Teachers:- Other (N/A or Less than HS): 0.5%
- HS Diploma / GED: 3.6%
- Associates Degree and Some College: 9.8%
- Bachelors Degree: 36.1%
- Masters Degree: 47%
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 2.2%
- Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 0.8%
Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors
- For Education Administration and Teaching undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 75.8th and 87.9th percentiles.
- For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 65.4th and 78.2th percentiles.
- For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 79.4th and 88th percentiles.
- For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 70.5th and 81.9th percentiles.
- For Medical and Health Sciences and Services undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 71.3th and 88.6th percentiles.
- For Fine Arts undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 73.9th and 86.3th percentiles.
- For English Language, Literature, and Composition undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 68.5th and 82.4th percentiles.
- For Liberal Arts and Humanities undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 63.3th and 73.6th percentiles.
- For Communications undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 76.3th and 85.8th percentiles.
- For Public Affairs, Policy, and Social Work undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 86.4th and 90th 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 245,965 Special Education Teachers. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 2330 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