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title: "Forestry and Conservation Science Teacher, Postsecondary"
description: "Teach courses in forestry and conservation science. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and…"
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# Forestry and Conservation Science Teacher, Postsecondary

**Category:** Educational Instruction and Library · **SOC code:** 25-1043 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 25-1043.00

Teach courses in forestry and conservation science. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Also advertised as: Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Conservation Biology Professor; Extension Professor; Forest Technology Professor; Forestry Professor; Lecturer; Natural Resources Professor.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $101,420 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** Not published by BLS
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $50,100 to $148,920, with the middle half between $77,440 and $126,930
- **Total US employment:** 1,520
- **Typical entry education:** Doctorate
- **Preparation required:** Considerable preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +2.8% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 100 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 40/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 1,520 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $50,100 |
| 25th | $77,440 |
| 50th (median) | $101,420 |
| 75th | $126,930 |
| 90th | $148,920 |
| Mean (average) | $102,450 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MI | $138,130 | $143,561 | 60 |
| VA | $132,820 | $131,370 | 60 |
| OR | $126,930 | $122,803 | 210 |
| AZ | $115,730 | $114,952 | 60 |
| NC | $108,430 | $114,952 | 90 |
| WA | $104,490 | $97,642 | 40 |
| MT | $104,220 | $110,117 | 60 |
| IN | $102,330 | $109,644 | 40 |
| WI | $98,410 | $104,586 | 40 |
| GA | $94,310 | $97,941 | 40 |
| WV | $84,450 | $94,361 | 40 |
| MN | $82,670 | $83,826 | 180 |
| ME | $82,280 | $84,781 | 50 |
| AL | $80,380 | $90,495 | 80 |
| MO | $79,820 | $87,891 | 70 |

1 more state with published wage data is omitted here. The full table for all 16 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/forestry-and-conservation-science-teacher-postsecondary/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/forestry-and-conservation-science-teacher-postsecondary.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 1,800 in the 2025–2035 base year to 1,900 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 100 jobs, or +2.8%. About as fast as average: 2.8% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 100 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Doctoral or professional degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Considerable preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Doctoral Degree | 62.7% |
| Post-Doctoral Training | 22.2% |
| Master's Degree | 15.1% |

## What the work involves

- Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
- Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
- Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
- Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
- Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
- Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, and course materials and methods of instruction.
- Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Instructing — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Evaluation — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- English Language — importance 4.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Education and Training — importance 4.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Biology — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Geography — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Expression — importance 4.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Clarity — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Social (S), Investigative (I), Realistic (R).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| S — Social | 6.47 |
| I — Investigative | 5.91 |
| R — Realistic | 3.97 |
| C — Conventional | 3.34 |
| A — Artistic | 3.15 |
| E — Enterprising | 2.42 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| INFJ | 63.4 |
| INFP | 61.1 |
| ISFP | 60.8 |
| ENFP | 54.8 |
| ISFJ | 54.4 |

Best-fitting types: INFJ, INFP, ISFP.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Environmental Science Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/environmental-science-teacher-postsecondary) — median $94,980
- [Agricultural Sciences Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/agricultural-sciences-teacher-postsecondary) — median $98,700
- [Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/atmospheric-earth-marine-and-space-sciences-teacher-postsecondary) — median $103,170
- [Biological Science Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/biological-science-teacher-postsecondary) — median $84,620
- [Geography Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/geography-teacher-postsecondary) — median $97,590
- [Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/family-and-consumer-sciences-teacher-postsecondary) — median $75,870
- [Recreation and Fitness Studies Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/recreation-and-fitness-studies-teacher-postsecondary) — median $77,270
- [Teaching Assistant, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/teaching-assistant-postsecondary) — median $42,910
- [Economics Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/economics-teacher-postsecondary) — median $123,920
- [Anthropology and Archeology Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/anthropology-and-archeology-teacher-postsecondary) — median $99,650

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025–2035 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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