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Overview
Instruct and advise individuals and families engaged in agriculture, agricultural-related processes, or home management activities. Demonstrate procedures and apply research findings to advance agricultural and home management activities. May develop educational outreach programs. May instruct on either agricultural issues such as agricultural processes and techniques, pest management, and food safety, or on home management issues such as budgeting, nutrition, and child development.
Highlights
Undergraduate program resulting in the highest median salary ($69K): Computer Science
Largest undergraduate program (10.5% of workers): General Education
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Salary
Median salary: $51,550 annually
Half of those employed in this career earn between $37,910 and $67,330.
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Salary growth for specialized educational instruction and library workers
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About Farm and Home Management Educators
How do benefits for this career compare to other jobs? The availability of health care, especially employer provided health care, and pension plans can add significantly to the value of compensation you receive in a career. These charts compare how this career compares to other careers with regard to health care and pension plans.
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Worker concerns
Some jobs are more stressful than others, and some are just plain dangerous. The following list gives the percentages of farm and home management educators who report hazardous or difficult situations typically occurring at least once a week.
- Time Pressure (31%)
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Education pathways to this career
Education attained by farm and home management educators
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), farm and home management educators typically hold a master's degree.
Sometimes the typical education identified by the BLS differs a bit from the reality of the how much education current workers actually have. The donut shows the education level held by people currently working as specialized educational instruction and library workers as reported in responses to the American Community Survey.
Education level of Specialized Educational Instruction and Library Workers
About 49% of specialized educational instruction and library workers have a graduate-level education, and 82% have at least a bachelor's degree.
Education attained by specialized educational instruction and library workers
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Top college degrees
Here are the top college degrees held by the 79% of people in this job who have at least a bachelor's degree. Some of degrees may link to multiple programs due to the way Census classifies college majors. Click on a program to learn more about career opportunities for people who major in that field.
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College majors held by specialized educational instruction and library workers
This table shows the college majors held by people working as specialized educational instruction and library workers. If you see "**" before the name of a degree/program, that means this field is one that the Department of Education believes is preparatory for this career. However, you can see from this list that those recommendations are far from your only path to this job!
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The link between degrees and this career
With the following sankey diagram, you can follow the top ten bachelor's degrees held by people working as specialized educational instruction and library workers, and then, in turn, you can see the 10 occupations that hire the most of each degree's graduates. We hope this provides ideas for similar jobs and similar fields of study.
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Where are the jobs
State-by-state employment numbers
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Number of Specialized Educational Instruction and Library Workers per 1,000 workers (ACS)
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Job density versus job count
Which states hire the most farm and home management educators? We wonder if that's a fair question since states come in all sizes, so instead let's start with the question of which states have the highest density of people working as farm and home management educators. You can choose to view the number of jobs per state if you prefer.
Salaries by state
Let's get a feel for where farm and home management educators earn the highest salaries. There are several choices for which data we consider and how we view that data, and each can lead to different conclusions, so please read on...
Median salary versus state ratio
We use two methods to compare salaries across states:
- In-state comparisons: the ratio of median (middle) salaries for specialized educational instruction and library workers compared to the median salary for all people working in each state, or
- Median salary: the unaltered median salaries for specialized educational instruction and library workers.
The darkest shading corresponds to states in which specialized educational instruction and library workers earn the highest salary when compared to other jobs in the state. We think this figure might be a better indicator than the actual salary for your buying power as a state resident.
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Location-adjusted median salary for Specialized Educational Instruction and Library Workers (ACS for all specialties)
Employment
24% of Specialized educational instruction and library workers are working part time.
We’ve found that some jobs have a huge number of part-time workers, and typically that is because they are unable to find full-time work or the job itself can’t provide full-time hours. With 24% part-time workers, this occupation has a higher percentage of part-time workers than 76% of careers.
Employer types
This donut shares the break-down of workers by employer type, giving us a picture of what employers most typically hire for this career.
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Distribution: Salaries of specialized educational instruction and library workers by type of employer
Here are the salary distributions based on employer type.
Gender
Specialized educational instruction and library workers and gender
With 74% women, this occupation has a higher percentage of women than 84% of careers.
Gender of Specialized educational instruction and library workers
Men (26%)
Women (74%)
Distribution: salaries by gender
Does gender greatly influence your salary in this career? The closer the bars are, the less discrepancy there is.
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Context: Women in the workforce
How does this career compare to other careers with regard to the percentage of women in the career.
Context: Salary inequity
The median salary for all full-time male workers in the
US exceeds the full-time median salary for women
by 19%.
The situation is a little better for specialized educational instruction and library workers, with the
median salary for men 7%
higher than the median salary for women.
Race/Origin
Race and origin of Specialized educational instruction and library workers
This donut shows the distribution of race and origin among those employed as Specialized educational instruction and library workers.
Race/origin of specialized educational instruction and library workers
White (75% )
Black (13% )
Asian (4% )
Multiracial (3% )
Other (2% )
Hispanic (1% )
American Indian (1% )
Pacific Islander (0% )
Distribution: salaries by race/origin
Some careers might have a pay disparity based on race or origin, the closer the below bars are the less of a discrepancy is present.
We only include salary data when the survey error is less than 20%, so you may see only partial information for some categories.
