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Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary pay in Alabama and Delaware
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary is $63,540 per year in Alabama. It is $103,320 per year in Delaware. Alabama is 38.5% below Delaware on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 25-1121 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 900 wage and salary jobs in Alabama and 150 in Delaware. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings