Education
Teaching, coaching and helping people grow.
Higher education
Academic Advisor
Keeping students on a path they keep wanting to change.
$42k-$70k
K-12 visual arts
Art Teacher
Six hundred students a week and a supply budget that ran out in October.
$42k-$80k
School & club sports
Athletic Coach
Almost nobody does this as their only job.
$3k stipend to $80k full-time
University admissions & private consulting
College Admissions Counselor
Reading a thousand applications, or charging families to write one.
$42k-$90k
Higher education
College Professor
A decade of training for a job market that barely exists.
$25k adjunct to $130k tenured
K-12 & edtech content
Curriculum Developer
Designing what gets taught, without managing the classroom.
$60k-$105k
Teen & commercial driver training
Driving Instructor
Calm is the entire job requirement.
$32k-$62k
K-5 classroom
Elementary Teacher
Thirty small humans and one lesson plan.
$42k-$85k
K-12, adult & online
ESL Teacher
The one teaching credential that travels internationally.
$42k-$85k domestic
Subject specialist
High School Teacher
Teaching one subject to a hundred and fifty teenagers.
$45k-$90k
Corporate & higher ed learning
Instructional Designer
Teaching skills, corporate salary, no classroom.
$65k-$110k
Public & academic
Librarian
Far less about books than everyone assumes.
$50k-$85k
Early childhood & elementary
Montessori Teacher
A separate credential, and a genuinely different theory of childhood.
$35k-$65k
School & private studio
Music Teacher
School salary, or a private studio you build one student at a time.
$40k-$80k
K-12 health & PE
Physical Education Teacher
Far more curriculum and assessment than anyone expects.
$42k-$80k
Early childhood
Preschool Teacher
The most important education years, paid the least.
$28k-$48k
K-12
School Counselor
Four hundred students and a schedule that keeps getting hijacked.
$52k-$95k
K-12 administration
School Principal
Every problem in the building eventually arrives at your door.
$85k-$140k
K-12 resource & self-contained
Special Education Teacher
Thirty legal documents and thirty kids who need you.
$48k-$92k
K-12 classroom support
Teacher Assistant
The cheapest way to find out whether teaching is for you.
$28k-$45k
Vocational training
Trade Instructor
Teaching the trade you spent twenty years doing.
$50k-$85k