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title: "Health Specialties Teacher, Postsecondary"
description: "Teach courses in health specialties, in fields such as dentistry, laboratory technology, medicine, pharmacy, public health, therapy, and veterinary…"
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# Health Specialties Teacher, Postsecondary

**Category:** Educational Instruction and Library · **SOC code:** 25-1071 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 25-1071.00

Teach courses in health specialties, in fields such as dentistry, laboratory technology, medicine, pharmacy, public health, therapy, and veterinary medicine.

Also advertised as: Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Clinical Professor; Instructor; Lecturer; Occupational Therapy Professor; Pharmacology Professor; Physical Therapy Professor.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $107,310 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** Not published by BLS
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $59,270 to $322,020, with the middle half between $75,690 and $210,370
- **Total US employment:** 221,270
- **Typical entry education:** Doctorate
- **Preparation required:** Considerable preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +17.3% over 2024–2034 (BLS EP, 2024–2034)
- **Annual job openings:** 27,400 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 44/100 — 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 221,270 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $59,270 |
| 25th | $75,690 |
| 50th (median) | $107,310 |
| 75th | $210,370 |
| 90th | $322,020 |
| Mean (average) | $147,570 |

### 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UT | $168,060 | $169,991 | 3,520 |
| DC | $167,520 | $152,428 | 1,460 |
| CA | $165,110 | $149,124 | 17,350 |
| WA | $137,520 | $128,508 | 4,510 |
| MS | $137,220 | $157,809 | 1,890 |
| CO | $136,930 | $132,875 | 7,800 |
| NM | $134,600 | $145,968 | 1,430 |
| MA | $134,520 | $127,197 | 10,250 |
| NY | $131,220 | $121,589 | 21,410 |
| MO | $130,490 | $143,685 | 5,700 |
| IA | $128,490 | $146,407 | 3,230 |
| LA | $125,130 | $141,859 | 2,250 |
| AR | $124,890 | $143,656 | 2,080 |
| MI | $108,970 | $113,254 | 3,430 |
| MD | $108,160 | $103,050 | 7,460 |

36 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 51 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-specialties-teacher-postsecondary/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/health-specialties-teacher-postsecondary.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 289,600 in the 2024–2034 base year to 339,700 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 50,100 jobs, or +17.3%. Much faster than average: 17.3% against 3.1% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 27,400 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2024–2034.

## 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:** Less than 5 years.
- **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 |
| --- | --- |
| Master's Degree | 35.9% |
| Doctoral Degree | 24.9% |
| Post-Doctoral Training | 19.1% |
| Bachelor's Degree | 12.5% |
| Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) | 4.6% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 2.9% |

## What the work involves

- Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
- Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
- Participate in campus and community events.
- Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
- Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
- Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
- Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.6 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 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Negotiation — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Education and Training — importance 4.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 4.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Biology — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Medicine and Dentistry — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Psychology — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 3.7 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 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Clarity — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 3.9 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), Conventional (C).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| S — Social | 7.00 |
| I — Investigative | 5.43 |
| C — Conventional | 3.52 |
| R — Realistic | 3.27 |
| A — Artistic | 3.00 |
| E — Enterprising | 1.99 |

### 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 | 65.8 |
| ISFP | 61.1 |
| ISFJ | 59.8 |
| ENFJ | 59.7 |
| INFP | 59.1 |

Best-fitting types: INFJ, ISFP.

## Related occupations

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

- [Nursing Instructor and Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/nursing-instructor-and-teacher-postsecondary) — median $80,250
- [Recreation and Fitness Studies Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/recreation-and-fitness-studies-teacher-postsecondary) — median $77,270
- [Biological Science Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/biological-science-teacher-postsecondary) — median $84,620
- [Clinical Nurse Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/clinical-nurse-specialist) — median $97,550
- [Health Education Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-education-specialist) — median $64,070
- [Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/family-and-consumer-sciences-teacher-postsecondary) — median $75,870
- [Psychology Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/psychology-teacher-postsecondary) — median $80,340
- [Education Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/education-teacher-postsecondary) — median $75,350
- [Career/Technical Education Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/career-technical-education-teacher-postsecondary) — median $63,820
- [Social Work Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/social-work-teacher-postsecondary) — median $77,570

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 30.3 Database, May 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, 2024–2034. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024–2034 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 30.3 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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