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

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

PE Professors

PE Professors teach courses pertaining to recreation, leisure, and fitness studies, including exercise physiology and facilities management. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Salary
$75430
Becoming One
Very Hard
Education
Doctoral degree
Job Satisfaction
Job Growth

Personality
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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
$75430 per year

Starting salary

Entry-level annual salary
$33,140 to $49,160 per year

Entry-level Postsecondary Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $33,140 to $49,160 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 Recreation and Fitness Studies 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%) $* $130,580
Senior (Top 25%) $* $94,420
Middle (Mid 50%) $* $66,290
Junior (Bottom 25%) $* $49,160
No experience (Bottom 10%) $* $33,140

Highest paying states

State Hourly Annual
CA $* $120,080
ID $* $86,340
NY $* $83,010
CT $* $82,710
MI $* $82,470
KS $* $74,030
UT $* $73,830
MD $* $72,180
OR $* $72,090
IL $* $70,970

* Postsecondary Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers are generally paid on an annual basis not hourly.

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

According to BLS, the highest paid PE Professors are in the states of CA, ID, NY, CT and MI.

Highest paying industries

Salary by industry Annual Hourly
Junior Colleges $90520 $*
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools $68880 $*
Other Schools and Instruction $43130 $*
Other Amusement and Recreation Industries $42430 $*

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