Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary

Education and Training
Demonstrate and teach patient care in classroom and clinical units to nursing students. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

What a nursing instructors and teacher, postsecondary does

Become a nursing instructors and teacher, postsecondary

If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good nursing instructors and teacher, postsecondary

  • Talking to others.
  • Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
  • Teaching people how to do something.
  • Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

Discover what you could earn in Washington

  • Average hourly rate is $71 per hour with an average salary of $81,900 per year.
  • Half of workers earn between $47 and $76 per hour.
  • Half of workers earn an annual salary between $14,000 and $97,100 per year.
  • 58% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.

Part-time

  • The average hourly rate for part-time workers is $75 per hour with an average salary of $66,100 per year.

Nursing Instructors And Teacher, Postsecondary job outlook

  • There are 1,172 workers in this occupation in Washington.
  • There are 203 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.

Multiple Jobs

  • 2% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
  • 59% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.

Growth rate by year

Education needed

Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Programs to get you there

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