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title: "Instructional Technologist"
description: "Helps teachers and faculty use classroom technology, learning platforms and digital tools to improve how students learn."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/instructional-technologist"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Instructional Technologist

**Category:** Educational Instruction and Library · **SOC code:** 25-9031 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 25-9031.00

Helps teachers and faculty use classroom technology, learning platforms and digital tools to improve how students learn.

Also advertised as: Educational Technologist; Instructional Technology Specialist; EdTech Coach; Technology Integration Specialist; Digital Learning Specialist.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $77,440 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $37.23/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $47,980 to $121,670, with the middle half between $60,780 and $98,820
- **Total US employment:** 227,760
- **Typical entry education:** Master's
- **Preparation required:** Considerable preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +1.6% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 23,100 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 37/100 — 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 227,760 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $47,980 |
| 25th | $60,780 |
| 50th (median) | $77,440 |
| 75th | $98,820 |
| 90th | $121,670 |
| Mean (average) | $80,920 |

### 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $105,990 | $96,441 | 1,220 |
| MD | $102,220 | $97,390 | 4,350 |
| WA | $97,250 | $90,877 | 4,720 |
| CA | $97,010 | $87,617 | 20,950 |
| CT | $96,170 | $92,819 | 1,780 |
| NJ | $96,090 | $88,314 | 3,770 |
| HI | $96,080 | $87,384 | 1,130 |
| MA | $95,320 | $90,131 | 6,170 |
| OR | $84,620 | $81,868 | 2,940 |
| VA | $83,230 | $82,321 | 5,830 |
| WI | $83,000 | $88,209 | 2,130 |
| CO | $82,160 | $79,727 | 3,400 |
| NH | $81,210 | $77,963 | 510 |
| GA | $81,060 | $84,181 | 7,830 |
| NM | $80,870 | $87,700 | 510 |

39 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 54 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/instructional-technologist/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/instructional-technologist.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 248,700 in the 2025–2035 base year to 252,800 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 4,100 jobs, or +1.6%. Slower than average: 1.6% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 23,100 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:** Master's 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:** 5 years or more.
- **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 | 59.8% |
| Bachelor's Degree | 24.8% |
| Post-Master's Certificate | 10.9% |
| First Professional Degree | 4.2% |
| Post-Baccalaureate Certificate | 0.1% |
| Doctoral Degree | 0.1% |

## What the work involves

- Coach teachers on integrating digital tools into lessons
- Lead professional development workshops on learning platforms
- Evaluate educational software for accessibility, privacy and curriculum fit
- Help faculty design online and hybrid courses
- Write tutorials, guides and short training videos
- Plan and support device and software rollouts
- Review usage data to judge whether tools improve learning

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Learning Strategies — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — 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 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Education and Training — importance 4.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Written Comprehension — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Clarity — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 4.0 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 | 6.16 |
| I — Investigative | 4.50 |
| C — Conventional | 4.27 |
| E — Enterprising | 4.26 |
| A — Artistic | 3.56 |
| R — Realistic | 1.62 |

### 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) |
| --- | --- |
| ENFJ | 77.2 |
| ENFP | 67.8 |
| ESFJ | 65.8 |
| INFJ | 63.4 |
| ESFP | 63.2 |

Best-fitting types: ENFJ.

## Related occupations

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

- [Instructional Coordinator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/instructional-coordinator) — median $77,440
- [Training and Development Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/training-and-development-specialist) — median $69,280
- [Education Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/education-teacher-postsecondary) — median $75,350
- [Training and Development Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/training-and-development-manager) — median $133,000
- [Career/Technical Education Teacher, Middle School](https://nuecareer.com/careers/career-technical-education-teacher-middle-school) — median $65,030
- [Elementary School Teacher](https://nuecareer.com/careers/elementary-school-teacher) — median $63,970
- [Special Education Teacher, Secondary School](https://nuecareer.com/careers/special-education-teacher-secondary-school) — median $74,260
- [Tutor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/tutor) — median $43,350
- [Special Education Teacher, Kindergarten](https://nuecareer.com/careers/special-education-teacher-kindergarten) — median $67,170
- [Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselor and Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/educational-guidance-and-career-counselor-and-advisor) — median $64,330

## 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/
- **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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