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Education Administrators, Postsecondary · SOC 11-9033

Education Administrators, Postsecondary Salary in the Tucson Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Tucson, AZ metro area

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

Median annual wage$99,760
Median hourly wage$47.96

Education Administrators, Postsecondary in the Tucson, AZ metro area earned a median of $99,760 per year ($47.96 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $62,480 at the 10th percentile to $213,610 at the 90th. BLS estimates 1,320 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Education Administrators, Postsecondary in the Tucson metro area earn more than $99,760 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $78,440 and $129,370.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$62,480$78,440$99,760$129,370$213,610
Hourly$30.04$37.71$47.96$62.20$102.70

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

  • Tucson metro areathis metro area
    $99,760
  • Arizonastate (AZ)
    $103,280
  • United Statesnational
    $104,590

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

The median here is −3% vs Arizona overall and −5% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$62,260$100,557$138,853$177,150Idaho Falls, ID — $62,260Arecibo, PR — $68,650Gadsden, AL — $74,990Fort Smith, AR-OK — $75,180Beckley, WV — $75,380Longview, TX — $76,010San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $76,680Jackson, TN — $77,200Rome, GA — $77,550Charleston, WV — $77,810Ponce, PR — $77,970Joplin, MO-KS — $78,180Lima, OH — $78,240Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $78,240Youngstown-Warren, OH — $78,620Winchester, VA-WV — $79,400Amarillo, TX — $79,550Rocky Mount, NC — $79,560Wheeling, WV-OH — $79,590Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $79,640Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $79,750El Paso, TX — $79,910Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $79,990Albany, GA — $80,100Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $80,690Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $80,800Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $81,260Jacksonville, FL — $81,490Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $81,650Urban Honolulu, HI — $81,770Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $81,830Evansville, IN — $82,180Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $82,250Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $82,440North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $82,500Johnstown, PA — $82,780St. George, UT — $82,830Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $83,180Laredo, TX — $83,610South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $83,950Springfield, IL — $83,990Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $84,050Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $84,310Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $85,060Lubbock, TX — $85,370Fort Wayne, IN — $85,400Athens-Clarke County, GA — $85,460Bangor, ME — $85,930Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $85,940Spartanburg, SC — $85,990Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $86,410Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $87,260Cleveland, OH — $87,500Portland-South Portland, ME — $88,180Aguadilla, PR — $88,760Abilene, TX — $91,860Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $92,400Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $93,720Akron, OH — $93,970Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $94,370Lynchburg, VA — $95,360Texarkana, TX-AR — $95,790Corpus Christi, TX — $96,270Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $96,320Bismarck, ND — $96,550Jefferson City, MO — $96,830Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $97,120Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $97,560Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $97,560Omaha, NE-IA — $97,620Asheville, NC — $97,730Springfield, MO — $98,160New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $98,320Pittsburgh, PA — $98,320Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $98,840Roanoke, VA — $98,890Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $99,120Killeen-Temple, TX — $99,300Montgomery, AL — $99,330McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $99,550Canton-Massillon, OH — $99,560Tuscaloosa, AL — $99,590Tucson, AZ — $99,760Knoxville, TN — $99,780York-Hanover, PA — $99,830Manchester-Nashua, NH — $99,860Stockton-Lodi, CA — $99,990Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $100,150Yuma, AZ — $100,180Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $100,420Columbus, OH — $100,600Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $100,850Columbus, GA-AL — $100,980Birmingham, AL — $101,070Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $101,070Mobile, AL — $101,120Toledo, OH — $101,140Columbia, SC — $101,150Iowa City, IA — $101,330Tyler, TX — $101,390Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $101,500Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC — $101,620Winston-Salem, NC — $101,770Medford, OR — $101,820Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $101,870Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $102,000Flagstaff, AZ — $102,030Lancaster, PA — $102,060Grand Forks, ND-MN — $102,080Chattanooga, TN-GA — $102,160Johnson City, TN — $102,330Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $102,370Redding, CA — $102,420Morgantown, WV — $102,600Lincoln, NE — $102,750Tulsa, OK — $102,940Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $102,990Wilmington, NC — $103,000Naples-Marco Island, FL — $103,040Lafayette, LA — $103,070Jonesboro, AR — $103,100Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $103,150Pueblo, CO — $103,150Huntsville, AL — $103,200Boise City, ID — $103,260Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $103,280Colorado Springs, CO — $103,310Baton Rouge, LA — $103,340Bloomington, IL — $103,350Mayaguez, PR — $103,610Terre Haute, IN — $103,780Mankato, MN — $104,400Duluth, MN-WI — $104,730Anchorage, AK — $104,770Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $104,770Worcester, MA — $104,910St. Louis, MO-IL — $104,940Coeur d'Alene, ID — $104,960Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $104,970Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $105,080Greensboro-High Point, NC — $105,180Walla Walla, WA — $105,390Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $105,540Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $105,700Barnstable Town, MA — $105,810Jackson, MS — $105,870San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $105,890Erie, PA — $105,910Topeka, KS — $105,910Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $105,980College Station-Bryan, TX — $106,370Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $106,520Utica-Rome, NY — $106,750Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $106,800Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $106,890Valdosta, GA — $106,900Springfield, MA — $107,050St. Cloud, MN — $107,250Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $107,310Reno, NV — $107,450Ogden, UT — $107,890Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $108,060Bend, OR — $108,250Cedar Rapids, IA — $108,400Raleigh-Cary, NC — $108,770Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $109,820Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $109,940Albuquerque, NM — $110,320Peoria, IL — $110,540Kansas City, MO-KS — $110,740Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $110,940Oklahoma City, OK — $111,460Fargo, ND-MN — $111,490Greenville, NC — $111,510Wichita, KS — $112,010Manhattan, KS — $113,160Dover, DE — $113,470Reading, PA — $114,260Santa Fe, NM — $114,690Columbia, MO — $117,570Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $117,980Fresno, CA — $118,130Chico, CA — $118,710Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $119,160Bellingham, WA — $119,240Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $120,110Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $120,560Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $122,260Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $123,260Modesto, CA — $123,830Eau Claire, WI — $124,910Green Bay, WI — $124,960La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN — $125,100Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $125,190Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $125,230Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $125,460San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $125,470Flint, MI — $125,730Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $126,430Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $126,620Richmond, VA — $126,850Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $128,270Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $128,620Greeley, CO — $128,750Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $129,320Salem, OR — $129,510Kenosha, WI — $129,620Syracuse, NY — $130,200Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $130,370Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $131,130New Haven, CT — $131,190Boulder, CO — $131,350Bowling Green, KY — $131,880Ithaca, NY — $132,470Vallejo, CA — $132,500Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $132,530Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $133,000Madison, WI — $133,080Harrisonburg, VA — $134,270Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $134,980Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $135,090Appleton, WI — $135,690San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $136,030Lexington-Fayette, KY — $137,250New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $137,800Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $138,670Rochester, NY — $139,640Lawrence, KS — $140,710Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $141,310Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $141,700Ann Arbor, MI — $144,340Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $153,950San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $154,140Visalia, CA — $156,010Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $158,720Merced, CA — $165,620Yakima, WA — $166,310Binghamton, NY — $166,660Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $172,410Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $177,150

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 Tucson metro area has the 158th-highest published median for this occupation among the 240 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 Arizona

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for education administrators, postsecondary, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Tucson metro areathis page
    $99,760
  • Phoenix metro area
    $103,280
  • Flagstaff metro area
    $102,030
  • Yuma metro area
    $100,180

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:

General and Operations Managers$83,610Medical and Health Services Managers$123,760Computer and Information Systems Managers$151,520Financial Managers$126,170Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers$60,350Managers, All Other$128,860

Highest-paying metro areas for education administrators, postsecondarys · Highest-paying occupations in Tucson 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.