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Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary earn $109,270 a year at the midpoint

Pay in this work stretches a long way: the lowest tenth earn about $61,550, the highest tenth about $210,370, and the middle sits at $109,270.

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$109,270median a year · United States
—an hour $124,520average 40,270people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$81,57025th $109,270median $150,86075th
$61,55010th percentile $210,37090th percentile
$81,570a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$137,280best-paying state · California
$82,070lowest-paying state · Pennsylvania
+26%top state against the national median
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  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
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  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

Paid by the yearThe survey publishes no hourly figure for this occupation — it is typically salaried, often on a school or contract year.
State matters a lotThe same job pays $137,280 in California and $82,070 in Pennsylvania — a gap of $55,210 a year.

Postsecondary engineering teacher earnings, from starting pay to the top 10%

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Neighbouring work, and what it pays

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Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary$109,270
Law Teachers, Postsecondary$128,500+$19,230 Economics Teachers, Postsecondary$123,920+$14,650 Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary$107,310−$1,960 Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary$101,420−$7,850 Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary$99,650−$9,620 Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary$98,070−$11,200

Postsecondary engineering teacher pay rate, hourly and yearly

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$109,262a year

Ranked 79 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 90% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 77 Ship Engineers $109,530
  2. 78 Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers $109,370
  3. 79 Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary $109,270
  4. 80 Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary $107,310
  5. 81 Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers $107,230

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Postsecondary engineering teacher wages in each state

The 43 states where the most people do this work, of 48 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.67 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
California $137,280 $80,660 $80,660 — $294,260 2,720
Illinois $135,430 $64,070 $64,070 — $222,540 1,040
Massachusetts $134,850 $80,700 $80,700 — $275,340 2,610
Georgia $131,260 $100,480 $100,480 — $216,760 700
Delaware $130,730 $76,790 $76,790 — $290,620 210
Michigan $127,230 $66,580 $66,580 — $225,890 2,120
New Hampshire $127,070 $77,540 $77,540 — $214,560 170
Louisiana $125,930 $76,040 $76,040 — $165,090 300
Connecticut $124,350 $64,460 $64,460 — $206,360 640
Texas $123,280 $62,130 $62,130 — $215,640 4,080
Virginia $121,880 $62,910 $62,910 — $224,190 1,070
Washington $119,960 $67,170 $67,170 — $211,220 820
Maryland $117,200 $66,820 $66,820 — $216,050 690
Kansas $115,160 $67,400 $67,400 — $177,510 280
Wisconsin $112,830 $67,630 $67,630 — $178,610 720
Idaho $112,240 $63,700 $63,700 — $132,070 180
Kentucky $110,810 $64,550 $64,550 — $219,540 340
New Jersey $109,910 $38,700 $38,700 — $209,830 1,270
North Dakota $109,710 $72,170 $72,170 — $156,360 220
Arizona $108,540 $72,300 $72,300 — $159,690 370
Minnesota $108,390 $63,800 $63,800 — $163,240 560
Nevada $107,890 $50,640 $50,640 — $171,240 290
Oregon $106,840 $66,900 $66,900 — $165,030 610
New York $106,240 $61,140 $61,140 — $213,570 3,240
Indiana $106,010 $66,800 $66,800 — $178,570 1,500
New Mexico $105,410 $64,470 $64,470 — $138,010 290
Utah $105,180 $79,030 $79,030 — $161,180 320
Arkansas $104,210 $57,820 $57,820 — $163,780 120
Colorado $104,070 $54,330 $54,330 — $171,520 1,100
Alabama $103,580 $59,880 $59,880 — $164,210 650
South Carolina $103,420 $69,770 $69,770 — $206,200 490
Wyoming $103,380 $65,260 $65,260 — $129,410 120
Iowa $103,360 $63,250 $63,250 — $166,390 430
Ohio $102,410 $48,160 $48,160 — $167,670 1,260
District of Columbia $101,970 $63,740 $63,740 — $171,980 140
Montana $101,170 $62,810 $62,810 — $167,470 280
Tennessee $100,640 $66,080 $66,080 — $178,740 790
Mississippi $100,440 $48,890 $48,890 — $163,490 330
West Virginia $100,400 $60,510 $60,510 — $126,980 240
Oklahoma $99,790 $62,090 $62,090 — $135,890 470
Nebraska $95,860 $62,310 $62,310 — $136,910 390
Maine $88,750 $61,450 $61,450 — $173,820 180
Pennsylvania $82,070 $36,770 $36,770 — $143,560 2,990

No estimate is published for 2 states: the survey withholds a figure when too few employers report it. Nothing has been filled in for them.

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What is a postsecondary engineering teacher’s yearly income?

A postsecondary engineering teacher makes a median of $109,270 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $81,570 and $150,860.

What is the starting pay for a postsecondary engineering teacher?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $81,570 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $61,550.

Which state pays engineering teachers, postsecondary the most?

California, with a median of $137,280 a year.

How many people work as engineering teachers, postsecondary?

About 40,270 in the United States — number 79 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays about the same

Median pay within $1,570 of what engineering teachers, postsecondary earn — $109,270 a year — but not always the same spread.

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