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Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary pay in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary is $106,500 per year in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN. It is $175,200 per year in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN is 39.2% below San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 25-1032 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 290 wage and salary jobs in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN and 230 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. 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