Education & Social
What you can do with Secondary Education
Teaching a subject you love to middle and high school students.
- Careers
- 2
- Early career
- $45,300
- Mid-career
- $62,000
- Growing fast
- 0 of 2
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 2 careers a Secondary Education 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.
53% of people with this degree go on to a graduate degree, so the higher-paying careers below usually mean more school after the bachelor's.
0 of 2 careers this degree leads to are projected to grow faster than average from 2024 to 2034.
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2 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
Middle School Teacher
$64,370Teach subject-focused classes to students in the pivotal middle grades between elementary and high school.
- Middle half of workers
- $58,530 to $80,490
- Growth
- Declining
- Openings a year
- 40,500
Work-life59Remote52- Subject Instruction
- Learning Strategies
- Classroom Management
- Active Listening
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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.