Teacher Assistants
Income Percentile Results
Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 93.4th and 96th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 734,138 Teacher Assistants.
50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $21,04475th Percentile: $31,026
95th Percentile: $61,117
99th Percentile: $96,348
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Income Percentile Stats
- To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $96,348 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 $61,117 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
Income of Teacher Assistants by Highest Education Level
Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:- Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 71.6th and 72.5th percentiles.
- Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 80.6th and 85.2th percentiles.
- Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 83.6th and 88.6th percentiles.
- Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 92.9th and 95.6th percentiles.
- Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 92.3th and 95.5th percentiles.
Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level
Highest Level of Education for Teacher Assistants:- Other (N/A or Less than HS): 4.9%
- HS Diploma / GED: 28.8%
- Associates Degree and Some College: 41.7%
- Bachelors Degree: 20.3%
- Masters Degree: 3.8%
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 0.4%
- Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 0.1%
Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors
- For Education Administration and Teaching undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 92.1th and 95th percentiles.
- For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 93.6th and 95.6th percentiles.
- For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 95.9th and 97.7th percentiles.
- For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 92.5th and 95.9th percentiles.
- For Fine Arts undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 90.4th and 93.3th percentiles.
- For Medical and Health Sciences and Services undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 94th and 96.1th percentiles.
- For Communications undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 93.4th and 96.3th percentiles.
- For English Language, Literature, and Composition undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 95.3th and 96.1th percentiles.
- For Liberal Arts and Humanities undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 92th and 95.7th percentiles.
- For Public Affairs, Policy, and Social Work undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 93.2th and 95th 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 734,138 Teacher Assistants. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 2540 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