# Preschool, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, and Special Education Teachers

> SOC minor group 25-2000 within Educational Instruction and Library Occupations — 14 detailed occupations.

- **SOC minor group:** 25-2000
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/preschool-elementary-middle-secondary-and-special-education-teachers
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap, not jobs lost. Figures below are aggregates over the group's member occupations, each traced to a named public dataset.

## Scale & pay

- **Employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** 4,129,370.
- **Median wage:** $63,765.
- **Projected growth (BLS 2024–34):** -1.1%.
- **Annual openings:** 308.4.

## AI exposure

- **AI task-overlap (mean across member occupations):** 53rd percentile (Moderate) — Eloundou GPT-overlap + Felten AIOE; task overlap, not automation.

## Member occupations

- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2021-00) — $62,340; 0th percentile overlap
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2031-00) — $64,580; 0th percentile overlap
- Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2022-00) — $62,970; 0th percentile overlap
- Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2011-00) — $37,120; 0th percentile overlap
- Special Education Teachers, Secondary School (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2058-00) — $69,590; 0th percentile overlap
- Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2012-00) — $61,430; 0th percentile overlap
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2032-00) — $63,910; 0th percentile overlap
- Special Education Teachers, Middle School (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2057-00) — $64,880; 0th percentile overlap
- Adapted Physical Education Specialists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2059-01) — $67,430; 0th percentile overlap
- Special Education Teachers, All Other (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2059-00) — $67,430; 0th percentile overlap
- Special Education Teachers, Preschool (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2051-00) — $62,190; 0th percentile overlap
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2023-00) — $63,620; 0th percentile overlap
- Special Education Teachers, Elementary School (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2056-00) — 0th percentile overlap
- Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2055-00) — 0th percentile overlap

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- **AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE)** (Felten, Raj & Seamans) — academic. https://github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T20:31:11.516731+00:00. https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/preschool-elementary-middle-secondary-and-special-education-teachers_