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Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary

SOC 25-1071 · 2024-2034

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

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$169,732per year
Projected openings
20,800
Projected change
+19.2%
Usually needs
Doctoral or professional degree

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Speaking
  2. Reading Comprehension
  3. Instructing
  4. Active Learning
  5. Writing
  6. Critical Thinking

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$161,11370
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$137,436130
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$137,200380
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$106,4871,610
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$106,3154,140
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$105,275110
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$102,679720
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$96,175630
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$79,678530
San Rafael MD (Marin County)Not reported30

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$67,344
A quarter earn under
$102,758
Half earn under
$169,732
Three quarters earn under
$367,220
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$392,241

A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

OccupationTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary$84,2546,140+16.9%
Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary$131,3571,350-4.8%
Registered Nurses$144,197228,840+13.5%
Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary$132,7653,210+4.9%
Health Education Specialists$65,39116,320+10.2%
Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary$110,3453,770+2%

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