Instructional Coordinators
What the pay figures show
- The District of Columbia pays instructional coordinators the most, $105,990. It still pays the most after tax. What it does not do is stay ahead once you count what living there costs. Level that out and Maryland wins, at $73,269. Same work. A wage that goes further.
- For instructional coordinators, the District of Columbia leads both nominally at $105,990 and after tax — state income tax differentials are not large enough here to disturb the ordering. Regional price parity is: deflating take-home by each state's price level puts Maryland first at $73,269. The adjustment that matters for this occupation is therefore cost of living rather than tax, which is the opposite of the assumption most relocation comparisons start from.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$77,440
People doing it
227,760
Highest paid
$105,990
DC
Best off, really
$73,269
MD, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$47,980
Highest tenth
$121,670
Lowest, really
$49,322
FL
States with data
51
National average
$80,920
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
103.97%
MD, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job is fairly steady around the country. Count tax and local prices and the states bunch closer still, from $49,322 to $73,269. For work like this, where you live changes your life more than it changes your pay.
- About 227,760 Americans work in this job, on a middle wage of $77,440. Big enough that where you live changes the arithmetic.
- Every state reports this one. All 51 jurisdictions publish a figure, and the middle wage is $77,440, so the comparison above leaves nobody out.
- Geographic dispersion in instructional coordinators is moderate by national standards. Tax and price adjustment compress the distribution further, to a real range of $49,322 through $73,269. Where nominal spread is this contained, relocation decisions in the occupation turn on non-wage factors, because the wage differential does not survive the adjustments in a form large enough to drive them.
- With 227,760 workers, instructional coordinators 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.
- All 51 jurisdictions publish an occupational median for instructional coordinators, so the spread described above is a complete national range rather than a range across a reported subset.
Pay band: Instructional Coordinators
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,980 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $121,670 |
| This salary | $77,440 |
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 Instructional Coordinators
The national median for this job
$77,440around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $47,980 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $77,440 |
| Top tenth | $121,670 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Instructional Coordinators, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | South Dakota · $57,910 |
|---|---|
| Highest | District of Columbia · $105,990 |
| Spread | $48,080 |
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 | $78,710 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $80,998 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MD | $102,220 | $76,174 | $73,269 |
| WA | $97,250 | $77,245 | $71,153 |
| DC | $105,990 | $77,353 | $69,811 |
| NM | $80,870 | $63,087 | $69,797 |
| ND | $75,340 | $61,622 | $69,573 |
| CT | $96,170 | $71,946 | $69,387 |
| WY | $76,140 | $62,394 | $68,680 |
| WI | $83,000 | $63,748 | $68,475 |
| NE | $79,150 | $61,614 | $68,175 |
| OH | $77,760 | $62,112 | $67,651 |
| IA | $74,970 | $59,334 | $66,843 |
| NJ | $96,090 | $72,498 | $66,584 |
| TN | $74,390 | $61,163 | $66,112 |
| TX | $78,710 | $64,202 | $66,069 |
| MA | $95,320 | $71,442 | $66,004 |
| MI | $79,290 | $61,491 | $65,289 |
| HI | $96,080 | $70,563 | $64,970 |
| GA | $81,060 | $62,410 | $64,540 |
| CA | $97,010 | $72,147 | $64,084 |
| VT | $78,360 | $60,895 | $63,015 |
| VA | $83,230 | $63,357 | $62,886 |
| CO | $82,160 | $63,723 | $62,854 |
| NH | $81,210 | $65,961 | $62,614 |
| MN | $80,550 | $61,543 | $62,533 |
| AR | $67,100 | $54,011 | $62,434 |
| MO | $72,080 | $57,088 | $62,213 |
| WV | $69,600 | $55,495 | $61,818 |
| PA | $75,580 | $59,680 | $61,210 |
| DE | $79,290 | $60,608 | $61,065 |
| ME | $76,700 | $58,931 | $60,693 |
| AL | $69,000 | $54,404 | $60,469 |
| IL | $76,050 | $58,711 | $59,392 |
| OR | $84,620 | $61,506 | $58,733 |
| AK | $72,320 | $59,707 | $58,700 |
| LA | $63,120 | $51,390 | $58,169 |
| IN | $66,300 | $53,526 | $58,064 |
| NV | $67,410 | $56,253 | $58,005 |
| OK | $63,980 | $51,209 | $58,004 |
| NY | $80,560 | $61,751 | $57,375 |
| MS | $61,830 | $49,479 | $56,682 |
| SC | $65,460 | $52,753 | $56,615 |
| KY | $63,640 | $51,205 | $56,600 |
| KS | $64,750 | $50,882 | $56,558 |
| SD | $57,910 | $48,711 | $55,293 |
| ID | $63,030 | $50,337 | $55,059 |
| UT | $65,780 | $52,107 | $54,848 |
| MT | $60,920 | $49,023 | $54,322 |
| NC | $63,340 | $51,055 | $54,234 |
| AZ | $62,620 | $51,332 | $50,771 |
| RI | $63,110 | $50,942 | $50,233 |
| FL | $60,790 | $51,025 | $49,322 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of instructional coordinators earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $77,440.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for instructional coordinators. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, the District of Columbia keeps the most at $77,353.
- Levelling out prices for instructional coordinators is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Florida sits at the bottom on $49,322.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for instructional coordinators, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $77,440, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- The household modeled for instructional coordinators is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis the District of Columbia retains the most, $77,353. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- The price deflation applied to instructional coordinators uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Florida at $49,322. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Florida anchors the bottom at $49,322 — and the two source series are dated independently.