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Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary · SOC 25-1121

Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary Salary in the Santa Maria Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro area

Figures describe the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Santa Maria city limits.

Median annual wage$78,000

BLS publishes only annual wages for this occupation (workers typically work fewer than 2,080 hours per year).

Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary in the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro area earned a median of $78,000 per year as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $50,520 at the 10th percentile to $133,460 at the 90th. BLS estimates 140 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary in the Santa Maria metro area earn more than $78,000 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $60,580 and $107,130.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$50,520$60,580$78,000$107,130$133,460

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Santa Maria metro areathis metro area
    $78,000
  • Californiastate (CA)
    $99,410
  • United Statesnational
    $78,620

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is −22% vs California overall and −1% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$50,920$88,530$126,140$163,750Asheville, NC — $50,920Roanoke, VA — $54,880Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $58,230Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $58,390Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $58,830Tallahassee, FL — $58,970Canton-Massillon, OH — $59,590El Paso, TX — $60,440Boise City, ID — $60,480Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $60,700Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $61,140Tyler, TX — $61,250Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $61,290Tuscaloosa, AL — $61,380Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $61,600Jackson, MS — $61,650Joplin, MO-KS — $61,740Chattanooga, TN-GA — $61,970Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $62,130North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $62,170Huntsville, AL — $62,620Oklahoma City, OK — $62,720Erie, PA — $62,760Mobile, AL — $62,840Montgomery, AL — $62,930Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $62,960Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $63,300San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $63,500Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $63,780Jacksonville, FL — $63,820Laredo, TX — $63,830Greeley, CO — $64,220Killeen-Temple, TX — $65,190Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $65,470Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $65,800Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $66,150Bloomington, IL — $66,300Lexington-Fayette, KY — $66,570Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $66,980Fort Wayne, IN — $67,210Tulsa, OK — $67,680Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $70,060Springfield, MO — $70,130Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $71,230Auburn-Opelika, AL — $71,290Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $71,430Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $71,500Kansas City, MO-KS — $71,870Duluth, MN-WI — $71,950Colorado Springs, CO — $72,750Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $72,970Richmond, VA — $73,940Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $73,990Greenville, NC — $74,200South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $74,800Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $74,850Janesville-Beloit, WI — $74,950Reading, PA — $75,200Flagstaff, AZ — $75,430Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $75,490Omaha, NE-IA — $75,650Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $75,660Portland-South Portland, ME — $75,680Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $75,730Pueblo, CO — $75,730Columbia, MO — $75,810Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $75,940Peoria, IL — $75,960Wilmington, NC — $76,110Walla Walla, WA — $76,130Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $76,190Mankato, MN — $76,320Toledo, OH — $76,350Lancaster, PA — $76,450Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $76,710Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $76,810Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $77,060La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN — $77,210Greensboro-High Point, NC — $77,340Fayetteville, NC — $77,430Harrisonburg, VA — $77,480Lafayette, LA — $77,510Birmingham, AL — $77,850Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $77,910San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $77,970Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $78,000Springfield, MA — $78,010Knoxville, TN — $78,080Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $78,140Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $78,380Cedar Rapids, IA — $78,500St. Louis, MO-IL — $78,510New Haven, CT — $78,600Abilene, TX — $78,630Columbia, SC — $78,880Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $78,910Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $78,950Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $78,970Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $79,010McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $79,010Manchester-Nashua, NH — $79,080Terre Haute, IN — $79,130Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $79,550Pittsburgh, PA — $79,610Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $79,720Bangor, ME — $79,910Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $80,000Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $80,190Columbus, OH — $80,700Utica-Rome, NY — $80,990Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $81,050Syracuse, NY — $81,420Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $81,520Worcester, MA — $81,670Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $81,790Cleveland, OH — $81,810Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $82,030Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $82,480New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $82,750Amarillo, TX — $83,280Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $83,550Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $84,060Raleigh-Cary, NC — $84,140Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $84,190Bloomington, IN — $84,830Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $85,590St. Cloud, MN — $85,820Salem, OR — $86,800Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $87,760Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $91,490San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $94,370Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $94,490College Station-Bryan, TX — $94,740Binghamton, NY — $95,160Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $96,050Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $96,170Lincoln, NE — $98,800Pittsfield, MA — $100,490New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $100,950San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $101,010Eugene-Springfield, OR — $101,270Ithaca, NY — $102,910Charlottesville, VA — $104,570Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $104,910Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $124,680San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $127,800Visalia, CA — $128,910Fresno, CA — $135,970Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $163,750

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Santa Maria metro area has the 64th-highest published median for this occupation among the 149 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in California

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Santa Maria metro areathis page
    $78,000
  • Riverside metro area
    $163,750
  • Fresno metro area
    $135,970
  • Visalia metro area
    $128,910
  • San Francisco metro area
    $127,800
  • Sacramento metro area
    $124,680
  • San Diego metro area
    $101,010

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary$46,540Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education$101,030Postsecondary Teachers, All Other$71,200Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$102,840Self-Enrichment Teachers$47,300Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other$48,930

Highest-paying metro areas for art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondarys · Highest-paying occupations in Santa Maria Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

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.