Education & Library

Engineering Teachers

SOC 25-1032

Teach engineering and run research labs at a university.

The job

Median pay

$109k

$82k to $151k typical range

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Growing fast

+7.8% projected

Openings a year

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

6/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

91st pct

More exposed than 91% of occupations · modeled estimate · 94th pct in Microsoft's data

Future-proof

56/100

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Key skills

Speaking
Learning Strategies
Reading Comprehension
Active Listening
Writing
Mathematics

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. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
Texas	4,080	0.3	1.1×	$123k
New York	3,240	0.3	1.3×	$106k
Pennsylvania	2,990	0.5	1.9×	$82k
California	2,720	0.1	0.6×	$137k
Massachusetts	2,610	0.7	2.8×	$135k
Michigan	2,120	0.5	1.9×	$127k
Florida	1,985	0.2	0.8×	$97k~
Indiana	1,500	0.5	1.8×	$106k
North Carolina	1,450	0.3	1.1×	$89k~
New Jersey	1,270	0.3	1.1×	$110k

All 51 states

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
Ohio	1,260	0.2	0.9×	$102k
Colorado	1,100	0.4	1.5×	$104k
Virginia	1,070	0.3	1.0×	$122k
Illinois	1,040	0.2	0.7×	$135k
Washington	820	0.2	0.9×	$120k
Tennessee	790	0.2	0.9×	$101k
Wisconsin	720	0.2	0.9×	$113k
Georgia	700	0.1	0.6×	$131k
Maryland	690	0.2	1.0×	$117k
Alabama	650	0.3	1.2×	$104k
Connecticut	640	0.4	1.5×	$124k
Missouri	620	0.2	0.8×	$89k~
Oregon	610	0.3	1.2×	$107k
Minnesota	560	0.2	0.7×	$108k
South Carolina	490	0.2	0.8×	$103k
Oklahoma	470	0.3	1.1×	$100k
Iowa	430	0.3	1.1×	$103k
Nebraska	390	0.4	1.5×	$96k
Arizona	370	0.1	0.4×	$109k
Kentucky	340	0.2	0.7×	$111k
Mississippi	330	0.3	1.1×	$100k
Utah	320	0.2	0.7×	$105k
Louisiana	300	0.2	0.6×	$126k
Nevada	290	0.2	0.7×	$108k
New Mexico	290	0.3	1.3×	$105k
Kansas	280	0.2	0.8×	$115k
Montana	280	0.5	2.1×	$101k
West Virginia	240	0.3	1.3×	$100k
North Dakota	220	0.5	2.0×	$110k
Delaware	210	0.4	1.7×	$131k
Hawaii	181	0.3	1.1×	$107k~
Idaho	180	0.2	0.8×	$112k
Maine	180	0.3	1.1×	$89k
New Hampshire	170	0.2	1.0×	$127k
Rhode Island	156	0.3	1.2×	$103k~
Washington DC	140	0.2	0.8×	$102k
Arkansas	120	0.1	0.4×	$104k
South Dakota	120	0.3	1.0×	$98k
Wyoming	120	0.4	1.6×	$103k
Vermont	90	0.3	1.1×	$104k
Alaska	40	0.1	0.5×	$110k

Top metro areas

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ2,600 jobs · $123k median
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH2,010 jobs · $135k median
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,700 jobs · $79k median
College Station-Bryan, TX1,160 jobs · $129k median
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA1,130 jobs · $138k median
Pittsburgh, PA760 jobs · $78k median
Ann Arbor, MI710 jobs · $140k median
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX630 jobs · $132k 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.