Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors · SOC 25-3011

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructorss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 140 metro areas

Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Modesto, CA	$129,080	70	0.4
2	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$119,590	140	0.1
3	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$107,420	170	0.1
4	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$105,820	320	0.1
5	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$102,920	40	0.1
6	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$98,860	600	0.1
7	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$96,280	40	0.0
8	Worcester, MA	$90,550	150	0.4
9	Vineland, NJ	$87,810	80	1.3
10	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$84,870	30	0.3
11	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$83,980	2,750	0.3
12	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$83,500	200	0.3
13	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$83,090	40	0.3
14	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$81,110	120	0.2
15	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$79,810	60	0.2
16	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$79,210	2,040	1.0
17	Bellingham, WA	$78,250	40	0.5
18	Bismarck, ND	$78,140	50	0.7
19	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$78,120	60	0.2
20	La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN	$78,110	60	0.7
21	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$78,010	110	0.3
22	Spartanburg, SC	$76,430	40	0.2
23	St. Cloud, MN	$76,400	90	0.8
24	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$74,460	130	0.5
25	Duluth, MN-WI	$74,320	100	0.8

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.