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Business Teachers

SOC 25-1011

Teach business subjects and publish research at the college level.

The job
Median pay
$99k
$64k to $142k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing fast
+5.9% projected
Openings a year
8k
BLS projection
Typical education
Doctoral
Our model
AI displacement risk
Very high
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
7/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
91st pct
More exposed than 91% of occupations · modeled estimate · 98th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
53/100

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Texas7,7100.51.0×$101k
New York7,4800.81.5×$104k
California5,2900.30.6×$128k
Pennsylvania4,6300.81.4×$102k
Massachusetts4,1901.22.2×$103k
Illinois3,5800.61.1×$95k
New Jersey3,1900.71.4×$85k
Ohio3,1000.61.1×$80k
North Carolina2,9600.61.1×$80k
Florida2,9000.30.6×$79k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Virginia2,4500.61.1×$104k
Maryland2,2800.81.6×$127k
Michigan2,2400.51.0×$111k
Colorado2,0800.71.4×$78k
Indiana2,0300.61.2×$87k
Georgia1,9400.40.8×$83k
Wisconsin1,9400.71.3×$97k
Missouri1,7200.61.1×$100k
South Carolina1,5000.71.2×$79k
Connecticut1,3100.81.5×$104k
Alabama1,2600.61.1×$82k
Tennessee1,2600.40.7×$86k
Arizona1,2400.40.7×$82k
Washington1,1900.30.6×$100k
Minnesota9800.30.6×$96k
Oregon9400.50.9×$100k
Iowa8900.61.1×$83k
Oklahoma7700.50.8×$82k
Kentucky7600.40.7×$80k
Kansas6600.50.9×$83k
Louisiana6400.30.6×$129k
Washington DC6300.91.7×$128k
New Hampshire5800.81.6×$83k
Mississippi5300.50.9×$76k
Nebraska5300.51.0×$89k
Utah4600.30.5×$116k
Arkansas4500.30.7×$65k
West Virginia4200.61.1×$104k
New Mexico4100.50.9×$84k
Nevada4000.30.5×$99k
Hawaii3900.61.2×$77k
Rhode Island3600.71.4×$104k
Maine3000.50.9×$83k
Delaware2800.61.1×$130k
South Dakota2600.61.1×$73k
North Dakota2500.61.1×$110k
Idaho2400.30.5×$84k
Montana1700.30.6×$81k
Wyoming1500.51.0×$70k
Alaska1300.40.8×$169k
Vermont1100.40.7×$101k

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ6,840 jobs · $105k median
  2. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH3,250 jobs · $103k median
  3. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN2,450 jobs · $94k median
  4. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD2,260 jobs · $107k median
  5. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA2,050 jobs · $128k median
  6. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX1,870 jobs · $101k median
  7. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD1,590 jobs · $107k median
  8. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV1,590 jobs · $128k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.