A same-metric difference from the U.S. median is unavailable for this row. The row could not be ranked because the matching median was unavailable. Neither comparison adjusts for cost of living, benefits, experience, employer mix, or hours.
Price-level context
What the local median may buy
BEA's 2024 all-items price index for Rhode Island was 102.3, or 2.3% above the national price level. Its housing index was 105.6.
National-price-dollar proxy
Not available
WageScope divides the published Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary median by the BEA all-items index. This is a price-level comparison, not take-home pay, a personal budget, or a quality-of-life score.
Wage period: BLS May 2025. Price period: BEA 2024. The releases describe different periods and are shown separately.
Price level in Rhode Island; U.S. = 100
U.S. baseline: 100.0. All items: 102.3. Housing: 105.6.
Local occupation context
Employment scale and concentration
Estimated employment
100Number of wage and salary jobs published for this row.
Jobs per 1,000
0.2Occupation jobs for every 1,000 jobs in the area.
Location quotient
1.57Local occupation share divided by the national occupation share.
Mean-wage RSE
Not publishedBLS sampling-reliability field for the mean wage.
Other large occupations in Rhode Island
Same SOC family first, then other high-employment rows when fewer than five family matches are available.
Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary in Rhode Island: wage guide
Use the local pay range, same-source bench marks, job scale, price level, and survey care marks as separate facts. This guide stays tied to SOC 25-1124 and BLS area 44.
Questions, answered
Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary pay in Rhode Island: common questions
What is the median wage for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary in Rhode Island?
BLS did not publish a median for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary in Rhode Island in the May 2025 OEWS release. WageScope does not substitute or infer the missing wage.
Is Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary pay higher in Rhode Island than nationally?
BLS did not publish the same median metric needed to compare Rhode Island with the United States.
Does the wage estimate adjust for cost of living in Rhode Island?
No wage price proxy is available because BLS did not publish an exact local median. A top-coded bound is not an exact wage input. A BEA price index, when available, describes prices separately and cannot fill that wage gap.
How many Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary jobs does BLS estimate in Rhode Island?
From market data to your evidence
Tailor for a real Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary job, not a generic wage number.
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What the Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary median says in Rhode Island
BLS did not publish an exact median for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary in Rhode Island in the May 2025 OEWS release. The source display is Not published. WageScope does not borrow the U.S. wage, use a nearby place, or turn this gap into zero. The row stays tied to SOC 25-1124 and BLS area 44.
BLS lists 100 wage and salary jobs for this exact role-place row. That is a survey estimate, not a count of open posts. The mean display is Not published. A mean and a median are separate fields; one does not fill a gap in the other.
A local-to-national median gap cannot be computed from this row. The national source belongs to the United States and does not become Rhode Island's wage. Any published percentile or job-count field below keeps its own scope, period, and source key.
This page exists because the BLS artifact has one row for SOC 25-1124 and area 44. SOC 25-1124 names Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Area 44 names Rhode Island. Both keys must match before WageScope can show or index this answer.
The 25-1124/44 row reports 100 wage and salary jobs, 0.2 jobs per 1,000 local jobs, and a 1.57 location quotient. Each value stays under the same two source keys.
For 25-1124/44, the annual median is Not published, while the matching mean is Not published. The row is annual only. WageScope does not switch units to fill a blank.
25-1124/44 10th percentile: Not published.
25-1124/44 25th percentile: Not published.
25-1124/44 median: Not published.
25-1124/44 75th percentile: Not published.
25-1124/44 90th percentile: Not published.
25-1124/44 employment RSE: 0.8%. Mean-wage RSE: Not published.
25-1124/44 suppression marks: annualMean: not available, annualMedian: not available, annualP10: not available, annualP25: not available, annualP75: not available, annualP90: not available, hourlyMean: not available, hourlyMedian: not available, hourlyP10: not available, hourlyP25: not available, hourlyP75: not available, hourlyP90: not available, meanRse: not available.
BLS area 44 facts behind this Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary page
Area 44 reports 501,340 wage and salary jobs across all covered occupations. Its annual mean is $71,900. Its annual median is $56,780. The employment RSE is 0%. The mean-wage RSE is 0.5%. These are facts for the whole area. They do not replace the 25-1124 row.
The all-jobs wage ladder in Rhode Island runs from $32,470 at the 10th percentile to $128,120 at the 90th percentile. The 25th percentile is $39,780. The median is $56,780. The 75th percentile is $85,200. This is a place check, not a pay range for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary.
The source rows below are the six largest detailed roles in the bounded area file. Each keeps its own SOC code. They help a reader spot-check area 44. They do not show related skills or a path into Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary.
1. Area 44, SOC 35-3023, Fast Food and Counter Workers: 13,310 jobs, $31,490 annual median, 26.55 jobs per 1,000, and 1.07 location quotient.
2. Area 44, SOC 41-2031, Retail Salespersons: 12,830 jobs, $34,860 annual median, 25.6 jobs per 1,000, and 1.02 location quotient.
3. Area 44, SOC 31-1131, Nursing Assistants: 10,220 jobs, $46,440 annual median, 20.38 jobs per 1,000, and 2.19 location quotient.
Pay range
Read the Rhode Island wage ladder for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
The 10th percentile is Not published. The 25th percentile is Not published. The median is Not published. The 75th percentile is Not published. The 90th percentile is Not published.
A percentile is a rank point, not a career stage. The 10th percentile does not mean new-worker pay. The 90th percentile does not mean a wage that comes after a set number of years. The points show how the wage values spread in the source. They do not say why one job sits at one point.
The middle half runs from Not published to Not published. The 10th-to-90th span is not available. Use the full ladder when a job post sits far from the median.
Rhode Island has a annual median of Not published. No exact state row is linked for this area. The U.S. row has $79,350 per year. WageScope keeps annual and hourly values apart.
A state comparison is not available for Rhode Island. Rhode Island cannot be compared with the United States on the same published median. WageScope leaves that gap open. A gap can reflect many things that are not in this row. WageScope reports the gap but does not name a cause.
The state and U.S. rows are bench marks, not replacements. They do not fill missing local facts. A state can hold many local labor markets. A national row can hold many states. Read the local row first, then use the broader rows to see scale.
Where Rhode Island sits for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
Rhode Island has no exact published median that can enter this Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary pay rank. WageScope leaves the rank open. It does not treat a missing or top-coded value as an exact amount, and it does not place this row at the bottom of a list.
Other states and territories may have exact medians in the same release. Those rows can be read on their own pages. They cannot establish a wage or a nearest wage neighbor for Rhode Island without the missing local field.
Employment and local share remain separate source fields for SOC 25-1124. Neither field is a substitute for median pay. A job count does not say where a wage would rank, and a share measure does not set a pay floor or ceiling.
Where Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary medians lead among states and territories
The rows below use the same SOC 25-1124, the same annual median, the same May 2025 BLS release, and the same state map type. No area has the highest published median in this set, at not available per year. Rhode Island sits at Not published.
A pay lead is one fact. It does not show the size of the job base. It does not show how common Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary is in the local mix. It also does not add local prices. The bullets keep the median, job count, and location quotient together so a high wage is not read as a full market score.
Use this list to choose a deeper pair, not to choose a place. Open the two local pages. Check the full wage ladder, the job scale, the survey care marks, and the exact BEA price row when present. A missing median stays out of this rank instead of becoming zero.
Where BLS counts the most Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary jobs
No area has the largest published state job estimate for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary in this same-source set, at Not published jobs. Rhode Island has 100. The count shows covered job scale, not open posts.
A large job base can have a lower median than a smaller one. It can also have a location quotient near or below 1. That is why WageScope does not blend job count, pay, and local share. Each field keeps its name and unit. The rows below let you compare all three without making one score.
Current MeritLog listings can add a dated view of employer-title matches. They do not change this May 2025 order. A place with few current cards can still have a large BLS job estimate. A place with several cards can still have a smaller estimate. The sources use different clocks and scopes.
Where Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary takes the largest share of local jobs
No area has the highest published location quotient in this state set, at Not published. Rhode Island has 1.57. A value above 1 means the role's local job share is larger than its national share.
A high quotient can come from a small local job base. It does not prove more jobs, more posts, faster growth, or higher pay. The bullets keep each quotient beside its BLS job count and median. This lets a reader see when the three measures point in different ways.
Use this list to ask where Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary is a large part of the local mix. Use the employment list to ask where BLS counts the most jobs. Use the pay list to ask where the median is highest. None of those lists decides where a person should work.
How common Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary is in Rhode Island
BLS lists 100 Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary jobs in Rhode Island. It also lists 0.2 jobs per 1,000 local jobs. Jobs per 1,000 turns the count into a rate. It helps compare places of different size. It does not show open posts or hiring speed.
The location quotient is 1.57. A value of 1 means Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary has the same share of local jobs as it has across the nation. This row is higher than 1. The quotient is a share check, not a wage or a growth measure.
Read the three values as separate facts. Employment asks how many covered jobs BLS estimated. Jobs per 1,000 asks how much of the local job base the role takes. Location quotient asks how that share compares with the national share. None of them tells you how many posts are open today.
Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary beside other roles in Rhode Island
The all-occupations median in Rhode Island is $56,780 per year. It covers the full local job mix and does not replace the missing exact Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary median. WageScope cannot calculate a same-unit wage gap from the role to that broader row.
No nearest-pay role list is shown for this row. Such a list needs an exact local median in the same wage unit. A title, employment count, or national wage cannot supply that missing input.
Other roles in Rhode Island still have their own source pages. Use those pages for their own official estimates, with each SOC code and period intact. Do not infer common tasks, skills, career paths, or pay for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary from another role's number.
Fast Food and Counter Workers is the largest detailed occupation in the bounded Rhode Island table, at 13,310 jobs. Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary has 100 jobs in its exact role-place row. The two counts show where this role sits beside other large parts of the local job base.
The all-occupations job count is 501,340. The detailed list below is only a bounded view of that larger mix. It does not sum to every local job. It does not include a blank role as zero. It helps explain why one role's wage and job count should not stand in for the whole area.
A large role can have a lower median. A smaller role can have a higher one. Job count does not show current posts, job quality, or growth. Use the list to see local scale. Then keep Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary's own median, spread, and share in their own fields.
1. Fast Food and Counter Workers has 13,310 jobs in Rhode Island, a gap of 13,210 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its median is $31,490 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 1.07.
2. Retail Salespersons has 12,830 jobs in Rhode Island, a gap of 12,730 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its median is $34,860 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 1.02.
Area pay mix
Published role medians around Rhode Island
Software Developers has the highest published median in the bounded Rhode Island role table, at $130,590 per year. Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary has Not published. This puts the role beside a local pay range without blending the source rows.
The local all-occupations median is $56,780 per year. A role above that mark is not better. A role below it is not worse. The mark only shows where the role's published median sits against the full covered job mix. Job tasks, level, hours, and work setting are separate facts.
The bullets keep each SOC title, job count, median, and local share together. Use them to find a role page worth opening. Do not use a close median as proof that two roles share skills or that one is a path to the other.
1. Software Developers has a median of $130,590 per year in Rhode Island, or not available. BLS lists 5,070 jobs, compared with 100 for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its location quotient is 0.93.
2. General and Operations Managers has a median of $117,380 per year in Rhode Island, or not available. BLS lists 9,150 jobs, compared with 100 for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its location quotient is 0.81.
Area role shares
Roles with the largest local share in Rhode Island
Nursing Assistants has the highest location quotient in the bounded Rhode Island role table, at 2.19. Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary has 1.57. Both values compare a local job share with the matching national share.
A quotient above 1 means the role takes a larger share of local jobs than it does across the nation. It does not mean more jobs than every other role. It does not mean open posts, growth, or high pay. The job count and median beside each row answer those other narrow questions.
The local role-share mix can differ a lot from the pay mix. Read both lists. Then compare Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary with the same SOC code in another place. This keeps a broad area pattern from replacing the exact role-place row.
1. Nursing Assistants has a location quotient of 2.19 in Rhode Island, a gap of 0.62 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. BLS lists 10,220 jobs and a median of $46,440 per year, or not available.
2. Cooks, Restaurant has a location quotient of 1.53 in Rhode Island, a gap of 0.04 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. BLS lists 6,950 jobs and a median of $36,510 per year, or not available.
Price-level view
Why a wage price proxy is unavailable in Rhode Island
No national-price-dollar wage proxy is available for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary in Rhode Island because BLS did not publish the exact median needed for that math. A missing or top-coded median is not zero and is not an exact wage input.
BEA separately published a 2024 all-items price index of 102.3 for Rhode Island. The U.S. level is 100. This source can describe broad local prices, but it cannot supply the missing BLS wage for SOC 25-1124.
A price-level wage calculation needs a published wage in the correct unit and an exact reviewed price-area match. Until both inputs exist, WageScope leaves that answer open. Published employment, source dates, and wage-status fields remain useful on their own without an inferred spending-power claim.
The employment RSE for this Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary row is 0.8%. The mean-wage RSE is Not published. RSE means relative standard error. It is a survey precision flag. A smaller value often means less sampling uncertainty. It is not the chance that one person's pay is right or wrong.
The employment RSE belongs to the 100 job estimate. The mean-wage RSE belongs to the Not published mean. BLS does not give the same RSE field for the median or every percentile. WageScope does not move an RSE from one field to another.
A local row can change in a new release. A small role-place sample can also have more survey uncertainty than a broad national row. Keep the May 2025 date next to the value. Do not mix a newer job post with the BLS date as if both facts came from one clock.
The job block looks for strict employer-title matches to Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. It uses a Rhode Island place filter only when the public place list has an exact approved match. If that match is not safe, the page says the jobs are not narrowed to this place. A false negative is safer than showing a different role.
Each card keeps its employer, place, source, and seen date. Listings can change between visits while the survey figures stay tied to their release date. A listing range does not replace the Not published BLS median. The listing and survey answer different questions.
Open one listing. Check its level, work place, pay range, and needs. Then tailor with work facts you can support. Do not turn a wage, job count, rank, or price proxy into a résumé claim. The public page is read only. It does not save a job or start a draft on load.
What the Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary row for Rhode Island does not claim
The row does not say what one person earns. It does not promise a job, offer, raise, or move result. It does not say why the local median differs from the U.S. row. It does not add tips, bonus pay, stock, benefits, taxes, or work hours unless those items are in the BLS wage measure.
The 100 job estimate is not a live opening count. The location quotient of 1.57 is not a growth score. The unranked row is not a place score. The 102.3 price index is not a personal budget.
Use the row for one clear task. Read the May 2025 wage spread for SOC 25-1124 in BLS area 44. Compare the same metric with the state and U.S. rows. Add the separate 2024 price level when present. Inspect a dated job match. Then use confirmed work facts for a résumé.
BLS published an employment estimate of 100 wage and salary jobs for this exact row. It is a survey estimate, not a current opening count or forecast.
Are the current job listings included in the BLS wage calculation?
No. MeritLog shows eligible live public-catalog listings separately, with their own source and observation date. Posted pay never changes the official BLS distribution.
4. Area 44, SOC 35-3031, Waiters and Waitresses: 10,160 jobs, $35,420 annual median, 20.27 jobs per 1,000, and 1.39 location quotient.
5. Area 44, SOC 29-1141, Registered Nurses: 10,090 jobs, $100,640 annual median, 20.13 jobs per 1,000, and 0.93 location quotient.
6. Area 44, SOC 41-2011, Cashiers: 9,260 jobs, $34,860 annual median, 18.46 jobs per 1,000, and 0.93 location quotient.
3. Nursing Assistants has 10,220 jobs in Rhode Island, a gap of 10,120 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its median is $46,440 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 2.19.
4. Waiters and Waitresses has 10,160 jobs in Rhode Island, a gap of 10,060 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its median is $35,420 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 1.39.
5. Registered Nurses has 10,090 jobs in Rhode Island, a gap of 9,990 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its median is $100,640 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 0.93.
6. Cashiers has 9,260 jobs in Rhode Island, a gap of 9,160 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its median is $34,860 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 0.93.
7. General and Operations Managers has 9,150 jobs in Rhode Island, a gap of 9,050 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its median is $117,380 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 0.81.
8. Customer Service Representatives has 7,890 jobs in Rhode Island, a gap of 7,790 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its median is $47,550 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 0.94.
3. Project Management Specialists has a median of $104,680 per year in Rhode Island, or not available. BLS lists 3,880 jobs, compared with 100 for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its location quotient is 1.13.
4. Registered Nurses has a median of $100,640 per year in Rhode Island, or not available. BLS lists 10,090 jobs, compared with 100 for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its location quotient is 0.93.
5. Management Analysts has a median of $99,640 per year in Rhode Island, or not available. BLS lists 4,100 jobs, compared with 100 for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its location quotient is 1.42.
6. Accountants and Auditors has a median of $95,820 per year in Rhode Island, or not available. BLS lists 6,570 jobs, compared with 100 for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its location quotient is 1.41.
7. Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education has a median of $92,610 per year in Rhode Island, or not available. BLS lists 4,910 jobs, compared with 100 for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its location quotient is 1.43.
8. Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education has a median of $90,930 per year in Rhode Island, or not available. BLS lists 3,830 jobs, compared with 100 for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. Its location quotient is 0.86.
3. Receptionists and Information Clerks has a location quotient of 1.45 in Rhode Island, a gap of 0.12 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. BLS lists 4,270 jobs and a median of $42,620 per year, or not available.
4. Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education has a location quotient of 1.43 in Rhode Island, a gap of 0.14 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. BLS lists 4,910 jobs and a median of $92,610 per year, or not available.
5. Management Analysts has a location quotient of 1.42 in Rhode Island, a gap of 0.15 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. BLS lists 4,100 jobs and a median of $99,640 per year, or not available.
6. Accountants and Auditors has a location quotient of 1.41 in Rhode Island, a gap of 0.16 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. BLS lists 6,570 jobs and a median of $95,820 per year, or not available.
7. Waiters and Waitresses has a location quotient of 1.39 in Rhode Island, a gap of 0.18 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. BLS lists 10,160 jobs and a median of $35,420 per year, or not available.
8. Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers has a location quotient of 1.32 in Rhode Island, a gap of 0.25 from Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary. BLS lists 4,040 jobs and a median of $44,730 per year, or not available.
Foreign Language and... pay in Rhode Island (25-1124/44) | BLS 2025
Current jobs
Precise employer-title matches for Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary in Rhode Island
Filtered through MeritLog's approved Rhode Island place record and a strict employer-title rule. Listings are not classified by BLS and remain separate from BLS and BEA estimates.
