Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
What the pay figures show
- For once the obvious answer is right. Utah pays this job best, at $168,060. It keeps that lead after tax. It keeps it after local prices too — $124,899 in comparable money. Most jobs are not this tidy.
- The nominal leader for health specialties teachers, postsecondary is also the real leader: Utah at $168,060, holding through tax and through price deflation to $124,899. Both adjustments leave the ordering at the top intact, which indicates a wage premium large enough to dominate the state's tax burden and price level rather than merely offset them.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$107,310
People doing it
221,270
Highest paid
$168,060
UT
Best off, really
$124,899
UT, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$59,270
Highest tenth
$322,020
Lowest, really
$54,307
WV
States with data
50
National average
$147,570
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
95%
UT, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Geography does a lot of the work in this job. Pay roughly doubles between the lowest state and the highest. Tax and prices narrow that gap. They come nowhere near closing it — the real range is still $54,307 up to $124,899.
- About 221,270 Americans work in this job, on a middle wage of $107,310. Big enough that where you live changes the arithmetic.
- This job is not published everywhere — 50 jurisdictions have a figure, with $107,310 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. Utah tops the ones that are.
- The nominal spread for health specialties teachers, postsecondary approaches a factor of two across states. Deflating for tax and price level compresses it substantially but leaves a real range of $54,307 to $124,899, indicating that most of the dispersion is real purchasing power rather than compensation for local costs.
- With 221,270 workers, health specialties teachers, postsecondary sits in the middle of the BLS headcount distribution. The state-level spread described above therefore applies to a meaningful population rather than a niche one.
- 50 jurisdictions carry a published median for health specialties teachers, postsecondary. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,270 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $107,310 |
| Top tenth earn over | $322,020 |
| This salary | $107,310 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
The national median for this job
$107,310around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $59,270 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $107,310 |
| Top tenth | $322,020 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary, state by state
The national median for this job
50states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | West Virginia · $60,300 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Utah · $168,060 |
| Spread | $107,760 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $108,150 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $111,294 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| UT | $168,060 | $118,656 | $124,899 |
| MS | $137,220 | $99,659 | $114,167 |
| NM | $134,600 | $98,001 | $108,425 |
| AR | $124,890 | $92,466 | $106,887 |
| IA | $128,490 | $94,818 | $106,817 |
| LA | $125,130 | $93,425 | $105,750 |
| MO | $130,490 | $95,260 | $103,812 |
| DC | $167,520 | $114,495 | $103,331 |
| CA | $165,110 | $112,855 | $100,244 |
| CO | $136,930 | $99,541 | $98,184 |
| WA | $137,520 | $105,261 | $96,959 |
| MA | $134,520 | $96,804 | $89,437 |
| ND | $100,760 | $79,009 | $89,203 |
| TX | $108,150 | $84,914 | $87,382 |
| NY | $131,220 | $93,985 | $87,326 |
| MI | $108,970 | $81,110 | $86,119 |
| TN | $98,870 | $78,385 | $84,727 |
| MT | $101,220 | $75,680 | $83,862 |
| PA | $107,920 | $81,439 | $83,527 |
| ID | $101,910 | $75,976 | $83,102 |
| NC | $103,220 | $77,836 | $82,681 |
| VT | $107,500 | $79,472 | $82,239 |
| WY | $93,480 | $74,593 | $82,108 |
| GA | $106,960 | $79,338 | $82,046 |
| IN | $98,170 | $75,026 | $81,387 |
| DE | $105,780 | $77,496 | $78,079 |
| VA | $106,880 | $78,635 | $78,051 |
| ME | $103,090 | $75,625 | $77,886 |
| AL | $92,310 | $69,893 | $77,685 |
| MN | $103,510 | $76,134 | $77,359 |
| RI | $103,780 | $78,262 | $77,173 |
| MD | $108,160 | $80,063 | $77,009 |
| AZ | $99,000 | $76,404 | $75,569 |
| SD | $78,720 | $64,210 | $72,887 |
| KS | $86,700 | $65,274 | $72,555 |
| KY | $83,680 | $64,888 | $71,724 |
| IL | $92,860 | $69,705 | $70,513 |
| OR | $103,180 | $72,939 | $69,651 |
| NE | $80,960 | $62,805 | $69,493 |
| FL | $88,710 | $71,237 | $68,860 |
| SC | $82,480 | $63,702 | $68,366 |
| OK | $76,450 | $59,673 | $67,590 |
| WI | $81,500 | $62,782 | $67,437 |
| NJ | $96,630 | $72,844 | $66,901 |
| OH | $74,720 | $60,057 | $65,413 |
| NH | $85,250 | $68,803 | $65,312 |
| NV | $77,160 | $63,112 | $65,077 |
| AK | $73,890 | $60,812 | $59,786 |
| HI | $81,480 | $61,402 | $56,535 |
| WV | $60,300 | $48,752 | $54,307 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for this job, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $107,310 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for this job, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Utah, at $118,656.
- The price adjustment for this job uses a statewide figure, and states are not uniform. A city and a rural county in the same state can differ more from each other than two states do, so treat the real-terms comparison as a direction rather than a precise answer — West Virginia anchors the bottom at $54,307. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- All wage figures for health specialties teachers, postsecondary are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $107,310. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- Retained-pay figures for health specialties teachers, postsecondary model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $118,656, which leads in Utah.
- Real-terms figures for health specialties teachers, postsecondary deflate take-home by a statewide regional price parity, which conceals substantial intra-state variation — metropolitan and non-metropolitan price levels within one state frequently differ by more than two states differ from each other. The wage and price series also carry different reference periods, as each is published on its own schedule, so the adjustment is directionally sound rather than precisely dated.