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What you can do with Dance
Training as a dancer, and learning choreography, performance and teaching.
- Careers
- 4
- Early career
- $44,000
- Mid-career
- $75,000
- Growing fast
- 3 of 4
How these numbers work: A major does not have its own salary. Early and mid-career pay is what people who hold this degree earn at the start of their careers and midway through them. Career pay comes from the 4 careers a Dance degree commonly leads to, and counts everyone in those jobs, including people who have been doing them for thirty years. The two answer different questions, which is why they do not match.
The New York Fed does not report Dance on its own. Its early and mid-career figures here are for Performing Arts, the broader group it places this major in.
3 of 4 careers this degree leads to are projected to grow faster than average from 2024 to 2034. Of those, Fitness Trainer / Instructor has the most openings, about 74,200 a year.
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4 careers this degree leads to
Teacher (Secondary Education)
$72,040Teach academic, social, and life skills to students at the secondary school level.
- Middle half of workers
- $59,980 to $92,570
- Growth
- Declining
- Openings a year
- 66,200
Work-life48Remote10Satisfaction70- Instruction
- Classroom Management
- Curriculum Design
- Communication
Choreographer
$55,310Create and teach the dance movements for performances, productions and shows.
- Middle half of workers
- $41,600 to $75,710
- Growth
- Faster than average
- Openings a year
- 700
- Choreography
- Teaching
- Creativity
- Leadership
Fitness Trainer / Instructor
$47,160Lead people through exercise, individually and in groups, and help them train safely toward their goals.
- Middle half of workers
- $35,280 to $61,730
- Growth
- Much faster than average
- Openings a year
- 74,200
- Exercise Programming
- Anatomy
- Motivation
- Safety
Dancer
VariesPerform dance for audiences in companies, productions, music videos and shows.
- Growth
- Faster than average
- Openings a year
- 1,800
- Dance Technique
- Physical Conditioning
- Rehearsal Discipline
- Performance
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Where these pay figures come from
Early and mid-career pay is the median annual wage of full-time workers who hold a bachelor's degree in that major, ages 22 to 27 and ages 35 to 45, from 2024 data. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (IPUMS). Published as Outcomes by Major by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Career pay is the annual wage of everyone working in that occupation, not only recent graduates, so it includes people who have done the job for decades. The middle half is the 25th to the 75th percentile. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET OnLine (median and percentile annual wages May 2025; employment projections 2024-2034).
All figures are national. What you earn depends on where you work, who you work for, and how far you take the degree.