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Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary · SOC 25-1111

Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary Salary in the Buffalo Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area

Figures describe the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Buffalo city limits.

Median annual wage$60,210

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

Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area earned a median of $60,210 per year as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $50,400 at the 10th percentile to $106,740 at the 90th. BLS estimates 70 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary in the Buffalo metro area earn more than $60,210 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $51,710 and $81,300.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$50,400$51,710$60,210$81,300$106,740

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

  • Buffalo metro areathis metro area
    $60,210
  • New Yorkstate (NY)
    $82,770
  • United Statesnational
    $76,590

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

The median here is −27% vs New York overall and −21% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$46,650$105,513$164,377$223,240Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $46,650Kansas City, MO-KS — $49,810El Paso, TX — $50,570Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $50,650Asheville, NC — $58,510Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $58,610Rocky Mount, NC — $59,290Raleigh-Cary, NC — $59,790Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $60,210Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $60,370Jacksonville, FL — $60,990Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $62,580Worcester, MA — $62,780Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $63,860Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $64,320Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $65,260Cleveland, OH — $65,570Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $66,040Richmond, VA — $66,410San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $69,640Springfield, MO — $70,040Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $71,230Syracuse, NY — $73,070Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $73,260Rochester, NY — $73,330St. Louis, MO-IL — $73,650Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $74,440Springfield, MA — $74,550Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $75,020Greensboro-High Point, NC — $75,600Columbia, SC — $77,120Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $78,610Columbus, OH — $78,650Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $78,720Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $78,830Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $79,330Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $79,410Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $79,420Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $79,800Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $80,270Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $81,080Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $81,300Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $81,530Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $81,690Columbia, MO — $82,000Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $82,530Jackson, MS — $82,610Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $83,060Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $83,930Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $85,560New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $86,690Pittsburgh, PA — $93,670Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $93,990Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $97,380Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $103,870Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $105,680Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $122,730Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $137,340Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $139,790San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $168,410San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $170,070Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $223,240

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 Buffalo metro area has the 54th-highest published median for this occupation among the 62 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 New York

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for criminal justice and law enforcement teachers, postsecondary, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Buffalo metro areathis page
    $60,210
  • New York metro area
    $86,690
  • Albany metro area
    $80,270
  • Rochester metro area
    $73,330
  • Syracuse metro area
    $73,070

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$35,670Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education$76,490Substitute Teachers, Short-Term$42,740Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$79,280Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$89,950Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education$37,990

Highest-paying metro areas for criminal justice and law enforcement teachers, postsecondarys · Highest-paying occupations in Buffalo 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.