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Job outlook for ged instructors in the United States
Ged instructor job growth summary. After extensive research, interviews, and analysis, Zippia's data science team found that:
The projected ged instructor job growth rate is -6% from 2018-2028.
About -2,800 new jobs for ged instructors are projected over the next decade.
Ged instructor salaries have increased 9% for ged instructors in the last 5 years.
There are over 14,471 ged instructors currently employed in the United States.
There are 25,270 active ged instructor job openings in the US.
The average ged instructor salary is $44,781.
Are ged instructor jobs in demand?
Ged instructor job and salary trends over time
Ged instructor jobs over time
Ged instructor job growth rate over time
| Year | # of jobs | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14,471 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 16,230 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 19,650 | 0.01% |
| 2018 | 21,844 | 0.01% |
| 2017 | 22,948 | 0.01% |
Average ged instructor salary over time
Ged instructor salary by year
| Year | Avg. salary | Hourly rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $44,781 | $21.53 | +1.8% |
| 2024 | $43,972 | $21.14 | +1.3% |
| 2023 | $43,390 | $20.86 | +2.9% |
| 2022 | $42,152 | $20.27 | +2.9% |
| 2021 | $40,979 | $19.70 | +0.7% |
Ged instructor jobs by state
Most common states for ged instructors
| Rank | State | Population | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colorado | 5,607,154 | 499 | 9% |
| 2 | Wyoming | 579,315 | 50 | 9% |
| 3 | South Carolina | 5,024,369 | 378 | 8% |
| 4 | Montana | 1,050,493 | 82 | 8% |
| 5 | Virginia | 8,470,020 | 607 | 7% |
| 6 | Oregon | 4,142,776 | 278 | 7% |
| 7 | Delaware | 961,939 | 66 | 7% |
| 8 | Alaska | 739,795 | 53 | 7% |
| 9 | Georgia | 10,429,379 | 665 | 6% |
| 10 | North Carolina | 10,273,419 | 663 | 6% |
| 11 | New Jersey | 9,005,644 | 487 | 5% |
| 12 | Massachusetts | 6,859,819 | 320 | 5% |
| 13 | Maryland | 6,052,177 | 289 | 5% |
| 14 | Iowa | 3,145,711 | 164 | 5% |
| 15 | North Dakota | 755,393 | 37 | 5% |
| 16 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 33 | 5% |
| 17 | Vermont | 623,657 | 30 | 5% |
| 18 | California | 39,536,653 | 1,697 | 4% |
| 19 | Hawaii | 1,427,538 | 58 | 4% |
| 20 | South Dakota | 869,666 | 39 | 4% |
Most common cities for ged instructors
| Rank | City | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Chicago | 1 | 4% | $45,590 |
| 2 | Bradenton | 1 | 2% | $39,900 |
| 3 | Clearwater | 1 | 1% | $39,862 |
| 4 | Silver Spring | 1 | 1% | $53,346 |
| 5 | Anchorage | 1 | 0% | $46,539 |
| 6 | Detroit | 1 | 0% | $40,477 |
| 7 | Jersey City | 1 | 0% | $47,326 |
| 8 | New York | 1 | 0% | $56,457 |
| 9 | Philadelphia | 1 | 0% | $53,818 |
| 10 | San Francisco | 1 | 0% | $80,477 |
| 11 | Tampa | 1 | 0% | $39,843 |
GED Instructor job outlook: Expert opinions
Our panel of ged instructor experts
Tiffin University
College of the Marshall Islands
Wittenberg University
Mercy College
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Belmont University
Universty of San Francisco
University of Kansas
Queens College of the City University of New York
Lafayette College
Grambling State University
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Franklin and Marshall College
AGWA - American Grant Writers' Association, Inc.
Florida International University
The University of North Carolina Greensboro
Texas State University
Northwestern University
Dr. Stephanie Opfer
Associate Professor of English, Assistant Dean of the School of Creative and Media ArtsTiffin University
Visual And Performing Arts
What will help GED Instructors increase their earning potential?
Dr. Stephanie Opfer: Unfortunately, teaching as an adjunct does not pay well. Students should keep their full-time jobs and teach part-time until they find a full-time job at a college or university. That part-time teaching provides them valuable experience and connections that make them more competitive candidates for full-time positions because they'd also be competing with candidates who have PhDs. So adjunct work is more of a long-term investment rather than an immediate return. Also, even full-time teaching jobs don't pay particularly well, so they'll really need to love teaching if they want to do it full-time. If they don't like teaching as an adjunct, they won't like doing it full-time.
What general advice would you give to a GED Instructor?
Alexander Velasquez: My general advice to any graduate beginning their career in their field is to continue to learn and be a student of your craft. Be open to learning new things because you never know how they will improve your skills and qualifications. For example, I am currently learning video editing. I never thought I would bother to learn video editing, but it makes me a more versatile instructor being able to give students the option of doing video projects, combining and editing them, and having a digital record of what students have learned in the classroom. And given the rise of online learning, it's important nowadays to be an effective instructor both in the traditional in-person format and within the digital landscape.
What GED Instructor skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Alexander Velasquez: I think that in the next three to five years the most important skills to have—and I mean this—will be critical thinking and imagination. This may sound a bit outlandish, and maybe even a bit naive, but hear me out: Artificial intelligence is making strides to the point where papers are writing themselves with simple instructions, videos are generating themselves with simple instructions, and software is beginning to write itself; and all this has been happening within the last few years. We may begin to see that in the next three to five years, once coveted programming jobs could become automated. Now, what I'm *not* saying is don't go to school for computer programming; but what I *am* saying is that the nature of work and employment *is* changing. For example, if you and and AI are making a video, and both of you have the same script, same voiceover, and so on, the only thing separating your final product from the AI's is the way you *think and imagine*, the perspective that you have as someone who can think critically about the information and lay it out in a visually appealing manner. AI can't do that—at least not yet—because it simply spits out the information it's given. But critical thought, metalevel thinking about information, is what will be one of the most important assets to have in the coming three to five years.
Alyssa Hoofnagle Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of MathematicsWittenberg University
Mathematics Department
What hard/technical skills are most important for GED Instructors?
Alyssa Hoofnagle Ph.D.: As I mentioned above, understanding the mathematical concepts and being able to solve technical problems using those concepts is important. However, our world is increasingly utilizing our technology to collect, store, and analyze data. So I believe all technical job applicants will benefit from having a background in statistical/data analysis as well as computer programming. We strongly encourage all of our majors to take as many statistics and computer science courses as they can in order to stay current in our ever-changing, technologically advanced environments.
Dr. Eric Martone
Interim Dean of the School of Education, Associate Professor, History/Social Studies Education, Editor, Global Education ReviewMercy College
School of Education
What hard/technical skills are most important for GED Instructors?
Dr. Eric Martone: In the era of COVID, skills with technology, particularly in the areas of remote and hybrid learning, are especially crucial.
What skills will help GED Instructors earn the most?
Dr. Eric Martone: Educators who are compassionate, with strong leadership skills, willing to make take chances to make a difference.
Dr. Jana Asher
Assistant Professor, Director of Statistics EducationSlippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
What skills stand out on GED Instructor resumes?
Dr. Jana Asher: We are responding first, assuming you mean non-tenure-track Mathematics Instructors, as this is the more common scenario.
Right now, because of the surge in distance education, skills with online teaching -- that is, being able to use an online course management system, being able to create and edit videos, and using zoom and other online conferencing platforms -- are the skills that stand out. Experience using one of the more common online course management systems like Desire2Learn, Blackboard, Canvas, or Moodle will stand out.
Skills in the particular subject matter being taught are also highly desired. While Mathematics Instructors will typically teach remedial and introductory level mathematics and/or statistics (through Calculus), the more upper-level mathematics that the applicant knows and can teach, the better.
Teaching mathematics in the 21st century requires fluency with software packages such as Matlab and Mathematica, so programming skills in these languages are highly desirable.
Finally, teaching skills -- as evidenced by experience or training in curriculum development, student assessment, pedagogy, and student advising -- helps make a candidate stand out.
One note: most Mathematics Instructor positions require a Master's degree, so a Ph.D. will stand out.
If the position is a tenure-track Mathematics Instructor, then all of those skills are still going to help the candidate stand out, but the candidate should also be working towards completing a Ph.D.
Dr. Daniel Biles
Chair and ProfessorBelmont University
Mathematics and Computer Science Department
What hard/technical skills are most important for GED Instructors?
Dr. Daniel Biles: Generally, all future mathematics jobs will involve computers in some way. Having skills with current, heavily used software and programming languages, such as SPSS and Python, is big to land that first job. For the future, knowing anything and everything about computers should be helpful: programming, cybersecurity, software engineering, database management, numerical approximation, etc. Data is becoming increasingly important, so statistical, data science, and database skills will be helpful.
What are the biggest trends we'll see in the GED Instructor job market given the pandemic?
Elliot Neaman Ph.D.: In the corporate world, companies are now having to shift from a physical workspace to working at home, so that means young people entering the workforce have an advantage since they are usually more tech savvy than older people, although that is not always the case. There will be new opportunities in companies that see a lot of demand because of the pandemic. Think about at-home exercise companies like Peleton. Obviously a lot of businesses are suffering or disappearing, like retail and restaurants, so you'll see a shift away from that, but service industries are going to become even more important, especially those that fill the niche of providing services at home.
Luis Corteguera
Professor and ChairUniversity of Kansas
Department of History
What general advice would you give to a GED Instructor?
Luis Corteguera: Make a plan for the future that outlines short-, medium-, and long-term goals. Discuss these plans with a variety of people (family, friends, acquaintances, professionals in areas of interst), and if available, with career planning professionals at the university, many of which continue to offer support even after graduation. Request "informational interviews" with all kinds of people in professions that may be of interest, even if you don't know them personally. Not only are these helpul to ask questions about career paths, but these interviews can also help to build professional networks.
Zavi Gunn
DirectorQueens College of the City University of New York
Center for Career Engagement and Internships
What skills stand out on GED Instructor resumes?
Zavi Gunn: The ability to analyze data, spreadsheets, formulas, and pivot tables is increasingly in demand. Highlighting your collaborative, creative, and innovative side is also a plus. In addition, employers look for digital competency - particularly video editing and social media management skills.
What type of skills will young GED Instructors need?
Eric Ziolkowski Ph.D.: The unnatural experiences, over a protracted period, of enforced quarantine, masking, "social distancing," working "remotely," deprivation of normal group activities (clubs, sports competitions, etc.) - all such experiences are likely to produce a generation of students with an increased appreciation of the human need for social connectedness complementing a deepened awareness of the limitless resources of one's private inner life.
What experience really stands out on GED Instructor resumes?
Eric Ziolkowski Ph.D.: No area of academic inquiry is better suited than religious studies, an inherently interdisciplinary area devoted to critically fathoming the limitless spiritual resources of religions, for encouraging students to cultivate the kinds of intellectual perspectives and skills that will be needed to navigate the existential quandaries and challenges of the post-pandemic world.
What GED Instructor skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Dr. Cheyrl Ensley: Training to be essential is critical. Increasing skills in using technology are necessary. Keeping students engaged and actively learning through technology is a crucial tool that will be extremely important to a teacher, whether teaching in person or virtually. Additionally, the gap year should be used to identify an area of interest for work. Once the site is specified, the graduate should build professional relationships and learn the site's culture.
What GED Instructor skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Suzanne Kemp Ph.D.: They need to stay engaged in some level of working with people with disabilities. If they do something that isn't relevant to the field, they won't be as marketable as a new graduate.
What general advice would you give to a GED Instructor?
David McMahan Ph.D.: Keep open to possibilities beyond the narrow range of what your diploma lists as your major or minor. Whatever job you get trained for today, in 10-20 years, it may be very different. Or it may not exist. Focus on obtaining and maintaining flexibility, critical thinking, creativity, and passion for learning. Being an interesting person is as vital as any credential.
Will there be an enduring impact of the coronavirus pandemic on GED Instructors?
John Porter Ph.D.: Grant writing is a very consistent business. It does not matter if the market is up or down or which party is in office. If the economy is down and money is tight, business tends to turn towards grant funding to supplement revenue. If the economy is strong, the company has a little extra cash and is willing to explore grant funding.
When unemployment rises and it isn't easy to find employment, more people will start their own business. If that business is a non-profit, it could receive grant funding for their programs and activities.
Grant writing is an excellent full-time, and part-time opportunity. Many, mostly non-profit organizations, seek Certified Grant Writers to help compensate for the lack of revenue, which has occurred from the recent economic shutdown. Independent Grant Consultants have a lot of control over the number and type of clients they work with, from a few each month to as many as there is time to do.
Certified Grant Writers are in high demand to compensate for issues like the recovery from the economic shutdown, rising taxes, and other financial strains,
David Chang
Chairperson, Frost Professor of ArtFlorida International University
Department of Art and Art History
What type of skills will young GED Instructors need?
David Chang: Young graduates should possess the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to function professionally in today's society. Our students go through rigorous studio training along with cutting-edge theories that inform their practices.
April Dawkins Ph.D.
Assistant ProfessorThe University of North Carolina Greensboro
Library & Information Science Department
What experience really stands out on GED Instructor resumes?
April Dawkins Ph.D.: Across the United States, most school librarians are required to have a graduate degree in either education or library and information science with licensure as a school librarian (school library media coordinator). The most likely experience to benefit them in their job search is a previous experience as a classroom teacher. Teaching is one of the significant roles that school librarians play in schools, through direct and indirect instruction with students, and professional development for classroom teachers.
Are there any particularly good places in the United States for GED Instructors to find work opportunities?
Dr. Rodney Rohde Ph.D.: There are large vacancy rates all over the country. This is a good news/bad news issue. However, with a degree in medical laboratory science (also known as a clinical laboratory science) AND certification, one can find employment anywhere in the U.S. One of the great things about this career is that graduates honestly can decide where they "fit best" with regard to geography and employer (urban, rural, large, or small).
What GED Instructor skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Helen Callus: A gap year is a terrific way to build a resume. By looking at where there might be a lack of experience like competitions, teaching, administration, summer festival interns, assistantships - they can focus their time and build their resumes well. I also think being creative in these current times, showing that you have experience teaching remotely, making a studio, creating a website, writing an article, and doing research that could be helpful later on. You could also spend the time preparing repertoire to teach or take auditions and make your first recording and video YouTube performance.