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Teachers and Instructors, All Other · SOC 25-3099

Teachers and Instructors, All Other Salary in the Columbus Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Columbus, OH metro area

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

Median annual wage$43,600

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

Teachers and Instructors, All Other in the Columbus, OH metro area earned a median of $43,600 per year as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $38,460 at the 10th percentile to $78,770 at the 90th.

Pay distribution

Half of Teachers and Instructors, All Other in the Columbus metro area earn more than $43,600 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $38,460 and $57,010.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$38,460$38,460$43,600$57,010$78,770

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

  • Columbus metro areathis metro area
    $43,600
  • Ohiostate (OH)
    $56,890
  • United Statesnational
    $66,140

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

The median here is −23% vs Ohio overall and −34% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$26,750$60,550$94,350$128,150Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $26,750Bowling Green, KY — $31,500Logan, UT-ID — $34,600Knoxville, TN — $37,580Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $38,600St. George, UT — $39,000Owensboro, KY — $39,460Tulsa, OK — $39,990Amarillo, TX — $42,130Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $42,290Charleston, WV — $43,310Ocala, FL — $43,410Columbus, OH — $43,600Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $43,790Waco, TX — $43,840Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $45,120Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $45,140Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $45,180Lexington Park, MD — $45,230Greensboro-High Point, NC — $45,520Corpus Christi, TX — $45,620Gainesville, GA — $45,760Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $45,810Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $45,820College Station-Bryan, TX — $45,900Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $45,970Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $46,420Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $46,460Goldsboro, NC — $46,600Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $46,640Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL — $46,850Helena, MT — $46,990Wilmington, NC — $47,030Winston-Salem, NC — $47,230Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $47,280Billings, MT — $47,370Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $47,370Raleigh-Cary, NC — $47,400York-Hanover, PA — $47,440Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $47,770Bloomington, IN — $47,840Jacksonville, FL — $47,910Naples-Marco Island, FL — $47,960Peoria, IL — $48,410Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $48,640Youngstown-Warren, OH — $48,730Columbia, MO — $48,800Spartanburg, SC — $48,940Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $49,050Port St. Lucie, FL — $49,110Tuscaloosa, AL — $49,130Bismarck, ND — $49,190Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $49,420Jefferson City, MO — $49,430Burlington, NC — $49,710Elizabethtown, KY — $50,000Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC — $50,000Hinesville, GA — $50,000Jacksonville, NC — $50,000Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $50,220Madison, WI — $50,480Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $50,550Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $50,550Pittsburgh, PA — $50,800Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $50,840Las Cruces, NM — $50,840Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $51,100Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $51,710Lake Charles, LA — $51,950Boise City, ID — $52,000Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $52,120Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $52,170Flint, MI — $52,290Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $52,440Manchester-Nashua, NH — $52,450Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $53,920Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $54,080Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $54,080McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $54,330San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $54,760Tucson, AZ — $55,130Salem, OR — $55,840Cleveland, OH — $55,870Roanoke, VA — $55,880St. Louis, MO-IL — $56,100Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL — $56,230Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $56,280Alexandria, LA — $56,560Tallahassee, FL — $56,950Morgantown, WV — $57,440Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $57,720Yakima, WA — $57,760Baton Rouge, LA — $57,980Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $58,200Topeka, KS — $58,490Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $58,870Athens-Clarke County, GA — $59,000Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $59,120Monroe, LA — $59,220Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $59,270Springfield, MO — $59,300Fargo, ND-MN — $59,500New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $59,500Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $59,550Columbus, GA-AL — $59,670Asheville, NC — $59,700Arecibo, PR — $59,850Saginaw, MI — $59,890Savannah, GA — $59,900Valdosta, GA — $59,910Charlottesville, VA — $60,010Rochester, MN — $60,210Sumter, SC — $60,220Albany, GA — $60,230Rome, GA — $60,300Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $60,490Macon-Bibb County, GA — $60,580El Paso, TX — $60,630Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $60,800Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $60,840Eugene-Springfield, OR — $61,020Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $61,110Brunswick-St. Simons, GA — $61,260Reno, NV — $61,340Aguadilla, PR — $61,670Guayama, PR — $61,670Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $61,720Mayaguez, PR — $61,830Lafayette, LA — $62,120Columbia, SC — $62,330Eau Claire, WI — $62,350St. Cloud, MN — $62,470Ann Arbor, MI — $62,500Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $62,560Midland, TX — $62,720Fort Wayne, IN — $62,850Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI — $63,000Ponce, PR — $63,040Oklahoma City, OK — $63,130New Haven, CT — $63,160Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $63,670Duluth, MN-WI — $63,710Chattanooga, TN-GA — $63,770Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $64,680Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $64,810Kennewick-Richland, WA — $64,870Abilene, TX — $64,940Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA — $65,150Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $65,610South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $65,790Birmingham, AL — $65,830Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $65,870Anniston-Oxford, AL — $66,230Auburn-Opelika, AL — $66,300Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $66,450Montgomery, AL — $66,520Beckley, WV — $66,550Omaha, NE-IA — $66,770Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $67,810Warner Robins, GA — $68,270Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $69,380Winchester, VA-WV — $69,780Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $69,810Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $69,910Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $69,990Santa Fe, NM — $70,180Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $70,570Ogden, UT — $71,370Albuquerque, NM — $71,410Mobile, AL — $72,370Bend, OR — $72,830Wichita Falls, TX — $73,920Rochester, NY — $75,170Utica-Rome, NY — $75,170Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $75,280Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $75,360Jackson, MS — $75,720Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $76,150Colorado Springs, CO — $76,380Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $76,400Dalton, GA — $76,420San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $76,460North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $76,610San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $76,640Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $76,650Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $76,860Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $76,940El Centro, CA — $77,110Fayetteville, NC — $77,210Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $77,230New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $77,260Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $77,330Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $77,400Greeley, CO — $77,570San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $77,720Vallejo, CA — $78,760Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $78,820Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $78,850San Angelo, TX — $78,850Gainesville, FL — $79,160San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $79,250Grand Junction, CO — $79,440San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $80,460Huntsville, AL — $80,950Urban Honolulu, HI — $81,220Yuba City, CA — $81,320Killeen-Temple, TX — $81,330Lawton, OK — $81,330Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $81,360Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $81,720Richmond, VA — $82,370Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $82,530Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $82,740Visalia, CA — $83,410Lexington-Fayette, KY — $83,770Anchorage, AK — $83,780Napa, CA — $84,420Wichita, KS — $85,300Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $85,640Hanford-Corcoran, CA — $86,710Florence, SC — $88,910Wildwood-The Villages, FL — $90,560Portland-South Portland, ME — $92,100Merced, CA — $93,400Salisbury, MD — $94,480Chico, CA — $95,420Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $96,010Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $96,820Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $97,070Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $97,680Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $97,920Carson City, NV — $98,230Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $98,390Kansas City, MO-KS — $99,070Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $99,430Stockton-Lodi, CA — $99,820Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $100,610Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $101,050Boulder, CO — $102,160Modesto, CA — $103,910Fresno, CA — $105,200Salinas, CA — $113,360Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $124,490Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $128,150

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 Columbus metro area has the 232nd-highest published median for this occupation among the 244 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 Ohio

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for teachers and instructors, all other, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Columbus metro areathis page
    $43,600
  • Dayton metro area
    $76,150
  • Cleveland metro area
    $55,870
  • Cincinnati metro area
    $52,120
  • Youngstown metro area
    $48,730

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:

Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education$78,150Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$81,400Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary$35,900Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$64,410Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education$35,370Substitute Teachers, Short-Term$37,940

Highest-paying metro areas for teachers and instructors, all others · Highest-paying occupations in Columbus 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.