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Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary pay in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA and Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary is $80,200 per year in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA. It is $99,510 per year in Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA. Providence-Warwick, RI-MA is 19.4% below Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 25-1192 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 Not published wage and salary jobs in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA and 30 in Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, 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.