# Education salary: $125,000–$176,583 a year

Every number below comes from 148 tracked live education postings. No surveys, no self-reports — listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured September 2026 · n=50 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median education posting offers $125,000–$176,583 a year (n=50, USD).
- 55.4% of the 148 live education postings are remote.
- The middle half of postings (25th–75th percentile) top out between $143,017–$231,300 a year — the median alone hides how wide that spread is.
- AI Level 4 education roles (building AI systems) list $401,000–$445,000, vs $114,000–$171,500 at AI Level 1.

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Junior | 1 | $134,000–$179,000 |
| Mid-level | 15 | $115,000–$169,000 |
| Senior | 20 | $125,000–$176,525 |
| Lead | 5 | $270,000–$365,000 |

## Remote vs on-site (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 18 | $129,875–$185,125 |
| On-site / hybrid | 32 | $122,250–$174,292 |

## Building AI vs working around it

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AI Level 4 — Build AI systems | 1 | $401,000–$445,000 |
| AI Level 1 — Work around AI | 38 | $114,000–$171,500 |

## Companies hiring education roles

- [Johnson & Johnson](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/johnson-johnson) (15)
- [Amazon](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/amazon) (11)
- [Salesforce](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/salesforce) (8)
- [Sanofi](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/sanofi) (4)
- [Anduril Industries](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/anduril-industries) (2)
- [Anthropic](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/anthropic) (2)
- [AstraZeneca](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/astrazeneca) (2)
- [Datadog](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/datadog) (2)

## Method

US-dollar postings with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 50 such postings clear the 50-posting floor Level requires before publishing a dedicated salary page — below that, the median moves too much between ingestion cycles to be a citable number.

Sample: education postings at tech companies tracked by Level (148 live postings in this category on the measured date). Not the whole labor market — do not cite as a national average.

All amounts are USD per year. Every median and quartile above excludes hourly-rate postings (a listed maximum under $1,000, almost always an hourly rate, not a salary) and mid-range postings that are neither clearly hourly nor clearly annual (maximum between $1,000 and $10,000) — mixing either into an annual median would understate the real number. The middle 50% of postings top out between $143,017–$231,300 (25th–75th percentile).

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured September 2026. Small-n slices move a lot — read the n column first.

## Education salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median education salary?**

Across 50 live US postings for education roles with a listed USD salary, measured September 2026, the median offer is $125,000–$176,583 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

**How many education roles jobs are remote?**

55.4% of the 50 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured September 2026.

**Does the AI level of the job change the pay?**

In this sample, 1 postings are AI Level 4 (building AI systems) and 126 are AI Level 1 (AI is not the work). See the AI level breakdown below for the median in each band. Measured September 2026.

Source: https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/education