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Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary

SOC 25-1111 · 2024-2034

Teach courses in criminal justice, corrections, and law enforcement administration. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

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

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$143,631per year
Projected openings
1,080
Projected change
0%
Usually needs
Doctoral or professional degree

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. Critical Thinking
  3. Active Listening
  4. Active Learning
  5. Writing
  6. Instructing

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$220,710120
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$167,235110
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$139,280300
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$78,908150

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$70,890
A quarter earn under
$84,491
Half earn under
$143,631
Three quarters earn under
$222,201
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$267,165

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
Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary$128,3869200%
Education Teachers, Postsecondary$114,9812,850+2.6%
Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary$110,3453,770+2%
Business Teachers, Postsecondary$132,0664,870+4.8%

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