Annual Salary, Salary Range, and Highest Paying States and Industries
Adapted Physical Education Specialists
Adapted Physical Education Specialists provide individualized physical education instruction or services to children, youth, or adults with exceptional physical needs due to gross motor developmental delays or other impairments.
Table of contents
- Average salary
- Starting salary
- Salary rank
- Salary range
- Highest paying states
- Highest paying industries
Average salary
Starting salary
Entry-level Adapted Physical Education Specialists with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $35,740 to $47,090 per year. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.
Salary rank
We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Adapted Physical Education Specialists to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compared the salary of all careers then we gave them a rank of A, B, C, or D depending on where their average salary sit in comparison to other careers.
Salary range
Level | Hourly | Annual |
---|---|---|
Highest (Top 10%) | $* | $104,790 |
Senior (Top 25%) | $* | $85,010 |
Middle (Mid 50%) | $* | $62,820 |
Junior (Bottom 25%) | $* | $47,090 |
No experience (Bottom 10%) | $* | $35,740 |
Highest paying states
State | Hourly | Annual |
---|---|---|
NY | $* | $92,650 |
OR | $* | $84,800 |
MD | $* | $75,440 |
NJ | $* | $74,520 |
DC | $* | $72,690 |
CT | $* | $71,480 |
RI | $* | $70,060 |
MI | $* | $69,710 |
CA | $* | $69,130 |
MA | $* | $68,200 |
* Adapted Physical Education Specialists are generally paid on an annual basis not hourly.
Another simple way to increase your salary as an Adapted Physical Education Specialist is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like NY doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at NY might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.
According to BLS, the highest paid Physical Education Teachers are in the states of NY, OR, MD, NJ and DC.