TK Teacher Salary & Pay Data
BLS OEWS May 2025 · Related occupation (proxy): SOC 25-2012 Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
BLS publishes no wage for transitional kindergarten; this is kindergarten teachers (SOC 25-2012), shown only as a related benchmark.
BLS reports this occupation as annual pay only.
BLS publishes this occupation as annual pay only, because most of these workers are paid on a school-year basis, so no hourly figure is shown. OEWS covers wage-and-salary workers only, so it leaves out the self-employed, workers in private households, overtime pay and most bonuses.
What the BLS figure covers
These are BLS figures for every worker in SOC 25-2012 Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education, a related occupation shown only as a benchmark.
BLS publishes no separate series or percentiles for transitional kindergarten teachers, so this page does not show a percentile table for the role.