Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
SOC 25-2021 · 2024-2034
Teach academic and social skills to students at the elementary school level.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
Shrinking -1.7%
California projects this job will shrink over the next ten years. Fewer openings may mean a harder search.
The job this trains for
- Typical pay in California
- $102,439per year
- Projected openings
- 96,800
- Projected change
- -1.7%
- Usually needs
- Bachelor's degree
Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Numerous Job Openings
The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.
Skills this work uses most
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.
- Learning Strategies
- Instructing
- Speaking
- Active Listening
- Social Perceptiveness
- Critical Thinking
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| El Centro MSA (Imperial County) | $104,731 | 480 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $104,094 | 1,680 |
| Salinas MSA (Monterey County) | $104,053 | 1,170 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $103,312 | 24,840 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $103,266 | 6,400 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $103,046 | 6,550 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $102,779 | 1,300 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $102,492 | 5,340 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $100,941 | 7,710 |
| Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County) | $100,920 | 480 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $100,869 | 990 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $100,437 | 1,730 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $100,211 | 12,550 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $100,047 | 850 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $100,047 | 1,670 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $99,801 | 1,440 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $98,650 | 420 |
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $98,360 | 790 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $97,962 | 1,860 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $96,216 | 620 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $95,594 | 3,680 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $94,706 | 720 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $84,095 | 460 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $83,530 | 300 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $82,821 | 690 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $82,708 | 530 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $82,215 | 2,830 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $81,055 | 960 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $80,808 | 1,070 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $80,562 | 8,630 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $79,113 | 3,200 |
Similar work
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.
| The job this trains for | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education | $101,720 | 23,240 | -1.7% |
| Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education | $104,208 | 57,820 | -1.5% |
| Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education | $84,861 | 7,710 | -2.8% |
| Tutors | $46,362 | 91,790 | +6.8% |
| Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors | $104,886 | 1,700 | -11.8% |
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