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Law Teachers, Postsecondary earn $128,500 a year at the midpoint

Where you land matters more here than in most jobs — the top tenth earn more than 4.5 times the bottom tenth. The midpoint is $128,500.

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$128,500median a year · United States
—an hour $144,770average 20,060people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$88,70025th $128,500median $176,49075th
$64,25010th percentile $287,90090th percentile
$88,700a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$171,790best-paying state · Minnesota
$68,270lowest-paying state · Utah
+34%top state against the national median
  • Read the spread, not the middle. The median is the midpoint across everyone in the occupation, most of them years into the work. A beginner starts nearer the 10th to 25th percentile, which is why the spread is published alongside it.
  • 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.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • 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 $171,790 in Minnesota and $68,270 in Utah — a gap of $103,520 a year.

Postsecondary law teacher earnings, from starting pay to the best-paid 10%

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Postsecondary law teacher pay rate, hourly to yearly

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$128,502a year

Postsecondary law teacher wages in each state

The 31 states where the most people do this work, of 33 with a published figure: their medians range by 2.52 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Minnesota $171,790 $80,170 $80,170 — $300,960 80
Oregon $167,010 $49,360 $49,360 — $179,030 250
South Carolina $162,400 $76,090 $76,090 — $302,400 110
Iowa $160,700 $74,080 $74,080 — $295,050 90
New Hampshire $157,800 $89,300 $89,300 — $317,560 90
Michigan $141,680 $65,790 $65,790 — $310,710 330
Wisconsin $140,940 $83,940 $83,940 — $232,590 150
Kentucky $140,820 $42,900 $42,900 — $256,790 120
Maryland $139,980 $79,480 $79,480 — $224,330 180
Indiana $139,400 $68,070 $68,070 — $302,180 180
Kansas $138,670 $15,080 $15,080 — $316,190 50
Texas $138,160 $77,840 $77,840 — $274,800 880
Maine $136,400 $60,770 $60,770 — $279,870 50
Virginia $136,270 $50,030 $50,030 — $304,760 400
New Jersey $135,760 $50,800 $50,800 — $299,620 470
Alabama $135,340 $30,490 $30,490 — $199,470 40
District of Columbia $134,090 $82,600 $82,600 — $212,620 670
New York $132,180 $66,020 $66,020 — $326,080 2,190
Massachusetts $132,010 $79,480 $79,480 — $323,630 840
Arizona $131,950 $79,560 $79,560 — $213,950 60
Nebraska $127,690 $63,110 $63,110 — $209,320 100
Washington $125,210 $62,690 $62,690 — $208,730 150
Pennsylvania $121,310 $62,780 $62,780 — $209,130 710
California $119,540 $72,850 $72,850 — $284,350 7,800
Illinois $107,700 $50,900 $50,900 — $275,360 470
Idaho $106,810 $106,810 $106,810 — $164,280 40
Florida $102,720 $62,610 $62,610 — $214,540 720
North Carolina $97,090 $52,450 $52,450 — $341,680 450
Ohio $75,930 $22,260 $22,260 — $203,930 250
Mississippi $74,440 $64,350 $64,350 — $97,590 40
Utah $68,270 $30,940 $30,940 — $215,140 120

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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Adjacent work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Law Teachers, Postsecondary$128,500
Economics Teachers, Postsecondary$123,920−$4,580 Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary$109,270−$19,230 Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary$107,310−$21,190 Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary$101,420−$27,080 Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary$99,650−$28,850 Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary$98,070−$30,430

No. 48 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 94% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 46 Information Security Analysts $129,180
  2. 47 Astronomers $128,820
  3. 48 Law Teachers, Postsecondary $128,500
  4. 49 Biochemists and Biophysicists $127,410
  5. 50 Mathematicians $126,710

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Questions people often ask

What is a postsecondary law teacher’s yearly income?

A postsecondary law teacher makes a median of $128,500 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $88,700 and $176,490.

What is the starting pay for a postsecondary law teacher?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $88,700 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $64,250.

Which state pays law teachers, postsecondary the most?

Minnesota, with a median of $171,790 a year.

How many people work as law teachers, postsecondary?

About 20,060 in the United States — number 48 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Jobs that pay about the same

Median pay within $1,600 of what law teachers, postsecondary earn — $128,500 a year — but not always the same spread.

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