How Much Do Education Professors Make in 2021 (including Starting Salary)

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Annual Salary, Salary Range, and Highest Paying States and Industries

Education Professors

Education Professors teach courses pertaining to education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, instruction, teacher education, and teaching English as a second language. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Salary
$75010
Becoming One
Very Hard
Education
Doctoral degree
Job Satisfaction
Job Growth

Personality
Interest Match



Table of contents
  1. Average salary
  2. Starting salary
  3. Salary rank
  4. Salary range
  5. Highest paying states
  6. Highest paying industries

Average salary

Annual salary
$75010 per year

Starting salary

Entry-level annual salary
$30,380 to $47,080 per year

Entry-level Postsecondary Education Teachers with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $30,380 to $47,080 per year. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.

Salary rank

Salary rank
B

We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Postsecondary Education Teachers 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%) $* $130,110
Senior (Top 25%) $* $92,010
Middle (Mid 50%) $* $65,440
Junior (Bottom 25%) $* $47,080
No experience (Bottom 10%) $* $30,380

Highest paying states

State Hourly Annual
AK $* $102,870
GA $* $100,310
UT $* $98,120
NY $* $95,010
CA $* $89,360
MA $* $88,550
HI $* $84,220
MD $* $84,050
CT $* $83,830
NH $* $79,600

* Postsecondary Education Teachers are generally paid on an annual basis not hourly.

Another simple way to increase your salary as a Postsecondary Education Teacher is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like AK doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at AK might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.

According to BLS, the highest paid Education Professors are in the states of AK, GA, UT, NY and CA.

Highest paying industries

Salary by industry Annual Hourly
Junior Colleges $80430 $*
Educational Support Services $79500 $*
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools $74390 $*
Business Schools and Computer and Management Training $72130 $*
Technical and Trade Schools $58760 $*

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