SOC 25-1067 · Educational Instruction and Library Occupations · May 2025

How much do Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary make in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is $80,420. The 10th percentile is $45,130 and the 90th percentile is $96,520. Employment is 40.

Median annual wage

$80,420

10th percentile
$45,130
25th percentile
$50,060
Median
$80,420
75th percentile
$89,680
90th percentile
$96,520
Mean
$73,620

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates. BLS reports this occupation on an annual basis. Hourly wages are not published.

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A nurse with a patient at a hospital centre in Birmingham. Wellcome Collection. Photograph by Wellcome Collection. Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

Percentile spread

For Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary, the published 10th percentile is $45,130 and the 90th percentile is $96,520. The difference is $51,390, which is 63.9% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $50,060 to the 75th at $89,680, covers $39,620.

The mean annual wage is $73,620, which sits below the median of $80,420. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

Hourly wages are not published because BLS reports this occupation on an annual basis. Hourly and annual wages.

National and state comparison

The San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR median is 4.6% lower than the national median of $84,290 for Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary.

It is 4.4% lower than the Puerto Rico median of $84,090.

Price-adjusted pay

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has not published a 2024 all-items regional price parity for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR, so this page does not show a price-adjusted wage.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR (40 of 690,810). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (11,850 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.76 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.

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Questions this page answers

How much do Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary make in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is $80,420. The 10th percentile is $45,130 and the 90th percentile is $96,520. Employment is 40.

How does that compare with the national median for Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary?

The local median is 4.6% lower than the national median of $84,290.