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National Career Cluster · the map of work

Education is one of the 14 national career clusters — the U.S. Department of Education's map that divides the whole world of work into broad families, each crosswalked to occupations, education programs, and industries. This cluster spans 83 occupations across 4 sub-clusters, employing about 12,375,580 workers, with a median wage of $75,040.

What's in this cluster

A career cluster is a navigational grouping, not a measured score. The counts below come from the framework's official crosswalk; employment and pay are aggregated from BLS OEWS (national, cross-industry, May 2024) across the occupations in the cluster.

83 occupations
4 sub-clusters
12,375,580 workers (BLS)
$75,040 median pay
1,332 education programs

Across occupations with wage data, the middle range (25th–75th percentile of occupation medians) runs $61,530 – $86,830. This describes the cluster, not any one job or person.

Sub-clusters

The framework splits each cluster into sub-clusters — tighter families of related work. The count is the number of occupations the crosswalk places in each.

Sub-cluster Occupations
Teaching, Training, & Facilitation 65
Learner Support & Community Engagement 16
Education Administration & Leadership 7
Early Childhood Development 5

Largest occupations in this cluster

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 34 occupations in Education. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Childcare Workers Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education Residential Advisors Special Education Teachers, Middle School Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education Special Education Teachers, Secondary School Self-Enrichment Teachers Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary School Psychologists Instructional Coordinators Tutors Business Teachers, Postsecondary AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
The largest occupations in this cluster with both an AI task-overlap score and a wage, plotted by task-overlap percentile (horizontal) and median-pay percentile (vertical). Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation.

Occupations in this cluster with the most workers nationally (BLS OEWS, May 2024), each linked to its full profile. Employment and pay describe the occupation, not an individual.

Occupation Workers Median pay
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 1,393,310 $62,340
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary 1,375,300 $35,240
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 1,072,540 $64,580
Management Analysts 893,900 $101,190
Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 620,370 $62,970
Childcare Workers 520,180 $32,050
Substitute Teachers, Short-Term 481,300 $38,470
Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education 445,080 $37,120
Child, Family, and School Social Workers 382,960 $58,570
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors 342,350 $65,140
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 319,630 $104,070
Self-Enrichment Teachers 308,520 $45,590
Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten and Elementary School 231,570 $63,000
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 229,720 $105,620
Instructional Coordinators 210,850 $74,720
Education Administrators, Postsecondary 176,420 $103,960
Tutors 174,660 $40,090
Special Education Teachers, Secondary School 162,780 $69,590
Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary 155,010 $44,930
Postsecondary Teachers, all other 151,530 $78,490
Information and Record Clerks, All Other 143,910 $48,360
Librarians and Media Collections Specialists 131,830 $64,320
Teachers and Instructors, All Other 125,010 $64,690
Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other 114,640 $48,400
Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education 114,410 $61,430
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary 111,150 $61,490
Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other 110,390 $54,940
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School 104,450 $63,910
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary 97,890 $80,190
Special Education Teachers, Middle School 95,330 $64,880
Residential Advisors 82,810 $39,180
Business Teachers, Postsecondary 81,780 $97,270
Library Assistants, Clerical 80,070 $36,010
Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary 74,250 $79,940
Library Technicians 73,770 $39,970
Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare 71,620 $56,270
Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other 71,400 $60,130
School Psychologists 63,830 $86,930
English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 59,590 $78,270
Education Teachers, Postsecondary 59,090 $72,090

AI exposure across this cluster

Two published studies estimate how exposed each occupation is to today's AI. The OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" study rates the share of an occupation's tasks a large language model (with tools) could speed up by half or more; averaged across this cluster it is 45% — 68th percentile of the 14 clusters. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages 1.00 here.

Computed across the 74 of 83 occupations in this cluster that carry a published exposure score.

Exposure measures where AI could assist tasks — it is not a prediction that these jobs will be automated. High exposure most often means augmentation (faster work), and many high-exposure occupations are also projected to grow.

Where the work sits

The framework anchors each cluster to one or more NAICS industry sectors — the parts of the economy where this work concentrates.

Education programs that lead here

A sample of the 1,332 CIP 2020 instructional programs the framework crosswalks to this cluster — the fields of study that prepare people for this work.

  • Abdominal Radiology Fellowship Program
  • Accounting
  • Accounting and Business/Management
  • Accounting and Computer Science
  • Accounting and Finance
  • Acoustics
  • Acting
  • Actuarial Science
  • Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program
  • Administration of Special Education
  • Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Adult Development and Aging
  • Adult Health Nurse/Nursing
  • Adult Literacy Tutor/Instructor
  • Adult and Continuing Education Administration
  • Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching
  • Advanced General Dentistry
  • Advanced Legal Research/Studies, General
  • Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences, Other
  • Advertising
  • Aerospace Medicine Residency Program
  • Aerospace Physiology and Medicine
  • Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering, General
  • Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Other

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Education." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; CIP-2020 2020; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/clusters/education

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Education. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/clusters/education

BibTeX
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  title  = {Education},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; CIP-2020 2020; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/clusters/education}
}

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