Secondary Teacher
Plans and delivers instruction to the same students across a year. Classroom control precedes any subject mastery.
- Pay band (est.)
- $52k–$85k
- Time to competence
- 4 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- mixed
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 35/100
- Hours burden
- 70/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play19th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge8th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand66th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay29th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body55th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy34th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit8th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility68th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill79th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load75th
Care, craft and stewardship weight. Not a moral score.
- Downside tolerance78th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Pay ceiling is low; unpaid hours are structural.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 70/100 and people intensity 90/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS/NCES-style patterns; estimate. All figures are estimates for comparison.