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Postsecondary Teachers is one of the 98 SOC minor groups — the middle tier of the U.S. Standard Occupational Classification, sitting between the broad job families and individual occupations. It belongs to the Educational Instruction and Library Occupations family and contains 37 detailed occupations employing about 1,396,290 people, with a median wage of $82,540 across them. BLS projects employment in this group to change +5.8% between 2024 and 2034 , with roughly 136,200 openings a year.

Occupations in this group

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 35 occupations in Postsecondary Teachers. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary Physics Teachers, Postsecondary Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary Law Teachers, Postsecondary AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Each occupation in this group 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.

Ranked by U.S. employment (BLS OEWS May 2024). Projected change is BLS 2024–34; AI exposure is the OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" human beta rating (share of an occupation's tasks where an LLM with tools could cut the time to do them by at least half).

Occupation Median pay Employment 2024–34 AI exposure
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary $105,620 229,720 +17.3% 39%
Postsecondary Teachers, All Other $78,490 151,530 +1.8% —
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary $61,490 111,150 +0.7% 45%
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary $80,190 97,890 +1.7% 59%
Business Teachers, Postsecondary $97,270 81,780 +5.7% 42%
Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary $79,940 74,250 +16.8% 37%
English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary $78,270 59,590 +0.0% 57%
Education Teachers, Postsecondary $72,090 59,090 +2.1% 44%
Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary $83,460 53,250 +7.3% 40%
Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary $79,350 48,820 +2.3% 43%
Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary $80,330 41,610 +3.6% 39%
Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary $106,120 39,910 +8.1% 42%
Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary $96,690 36,240 +5.3% 37%
Communications Teachers, Postsecondary $77,800 29,260 +2.1% 58%
Law Teachers, Postsecondary $126,650 22,800 +2.2% 59%
Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary $77,010 21,170 -0.2% 57%
Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary $78,050 20,840 +0.7% 59%
Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary $86,220 20,390 +2.2% 40%
History Teachers, Postsecondary $81,500 19,860 -0.2% 59%
Social Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, All Other $75,040 17,540 +1.7% —
Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary $94,680 17,170 +2.0% 41%
Physics Teachers, Postsecondary $97,360 13,590 +2.5% 37%
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary $71,470 13,560 +2.0% 44%
Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary $76,210 13,350 +2.3% 51%
Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary $75,890 12,680 +2.4% 62%
Economics Teachers, Postsecondary $119,980 12,420 +2.1% 44%
Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary $82,540 12,380 +2.1% 40%
Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary $101,390 11,480 +2.6% 40%
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary $84,290 11,430 +2.4% 44%
Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary $101,480 9,120 +2.0% 43%
Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary $86,350 8,700 +4.1% 59%
Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary $87,710 7,130 +2.9% 42%
Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary $95,770 5,260 +2.7% 41%
Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary $78,630 4,100 +3.0% 43%
Geography Teachers, Postsecondary $86,730 3,290 +3.3% 47%
Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary $77,280 2,630 +3.4% 65%
Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary $100,830 1,310 +4.0% 42%

AI exposure across this group

Two published studies estimate how exposed each occupation is to AI. The OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" study rates the share of an occupation's tasks an LLM (with tools) could speed up by half or more; averaged across this group it is 47% — 81st percentile of the 98 groups. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages 1.21 here.

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

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 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Postsecondary Teachers." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/postsecondary-teachers

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Postsecondary Teachers. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/postsecondary-teachers

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@misc{singulariki-postsecondary-teachers,
  title  = {Postsecondary Teachers},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/postsecondary-teachers}
}

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