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Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary

SOC 25-1121 · 2024-2034

Teach courses in drama, music, and the arts including fine and applied art, such as painting and sculpture, or design and crafts. 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
$102,193per year
Projected openings
8,060
Projected change
+0.9%
Usually needs
Master's 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. Instructing
  3. Learning Strategies
  4. Reading Comprehension
  5. Active Listening
  6. Active Learning

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$167,17490
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$136,810570
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$135,022100
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$134,211960
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$131,991590
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$125,574440
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$116,749100
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$108,675260
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$108,480620
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$107,143630
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$104,7133,810

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$62,111
A quarter earn under
$77,058
Half earn under
$102,193
Three quarters earn under
$147,075
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$208,415

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
Self-Enrichment Teachers$50,95897,020+10.2%
English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary$134,1433,890-3.4%
Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary$50,51628,690+2.6%
Communications Teachers, Postsecondary$138,7792,340-2.9%
Education Teachers, Postsecondary$114,9812,850+2.6%
Instructional Coordinators$99,72621,280+5.7%

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