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Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary pay in Alabama and Kentucky
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary is $64,700 per year in Alabama. It is $139,110 per year in Kentucky. Alabama is 53.5% below Kentucky on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 25-1053 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 40 wage and salary jobs in Alabama and 70 in Kentucky. 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