Teaching Assistants, All Other

US occupation · SOC 25-9049

Median annual wage, May 2025: $36,780; Half earn more, half earn less
Middle half earn: $31,060 – $45,360; 25th to 75th percentile
People employed, May 2025: 1,420,350; Wage and salary jobs (OEWS)
Projected change, 2025–35: -0.3%; Shrinking (below 0%)
Openings a year (projected): 176,200; New jobs plus replacing people who leave
Typical education to enter: Some college, no degree; BLS

BLS publishes one wage and employment figure for teaching assistants, except postsecondary combined (code 25-9045). The pay and employment figures above are for that whole group, not for teaching assistants, all other alone. So is the projection.

All figures are for the United States as a whole. Pay varies a lot by state and city.
Wages are for everyone working in the occupation in May 2025, at every career stage. They are not starting salaries or figures for new graduates.
Growth and openings are BLS projections for 2025–35. They are estimates, not promises. Openings include jobs that open up when people retire or change occupation, not just new jobs.

What the work involves

All teaching assistants not listed separately.

Description and tasks from the O*NET® 31.0 Database.

Getting in

Typical education to enter (BLS): Some college, no degree

Fields of study that lead here

From the federal CIP–SOC crosswalk, which links 3 programmes to this occupation. A link means the programme prepares people for this kind of work. It doesn't mean the programme is required, or that it's the only route.

Education

Teacher Assistant/Aide
Adult Literacy Tutor/Instructor
Teaching Assistants/Aides, Other

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Where many students take education

Western Governors UniversitySalt Lake City, UT · 19% of degrees · 155,088 undergraduates
Grand Canyon UniversityPhoenix, AZ · 11% of degrees · 73,371 undergraduates
Liberty UniversityLynchburg, VA · 8% of degrees · 50,012 undergraduates
Illinois State UniversityNormal, IL · 18% of degrees · 19,057 undergraduates
Arizona State University Campus ImmersionTempe, AZ · 5% of degrees · 64,674 undergraduates
University of Nevada-Las VegasLas Vegas, NV · 11% of degrees · 24,622 undergraduates

Ordered by the field's share of degrees awarded times undergraduate enrolment (College Scorecard), among colleges with at least 1,000 undergraduates. Online universities are included. It's a rough measure of how big the programme is. It says nothing about quality. The share counts every programme in the field, not only the ones linked to this career.

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Sources

This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. CollegeMatcher has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. O*NET 31.0 Database · CC BY 4.0

Changes: we show the core tasks in the O*NET database with the highest importance ratings (up to eight, in that order), the top three O*NET interest types by score, and shortened Job Zone names. Titles, descriptions and task text are unchanged.

Wages: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Projections, typical entry education and training: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025–35. Fields of study: NCES and BLS CIP 2020–SOC 2018 Crosswalk. All public domain. OEWS · Employment Projections · CIP–SOC crosswalk