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Job outlook for physiology teachers in the United States
Are physiology teacher jobs in demand?
Physiology teacher job and salary trends over time
Physiology teacher jobs over time
Physiology teacher job growth rate over time
| Year | # of jobs | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 814 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 791 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 827 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | 839 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 820 | 0.00% |
Average physiology teacher salary over time
Physiology teacher salary by year
| Year | Avg. salary | Hourly rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $48,999 | $23.56 | +2.0% |
| 2024 | $48,056 | $23.10 | +2.2% |
| 2023 | $47,011 | $22.60 | +1.9% |
| 2022 | $46,115 | $22.17 | +2.0% |
| 2021 | $45,226 | $21.74 | +1.5% |
Physiology teacher jobs by state
Most common states for physiology teachers
| Rank | State | Population | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 115 | 17% |
| 2 | New Hampshire | 1,342,795 | 168 | 13% |
| 3 | New Jersey | 9,005,644 | 962 | 11% |
| 4 | Maryland | 6,052,177 | 682 | 11% |
| 5 | Minnesota | 5,576,606 | 588 | 11% |
| 6 | Illinois | 12,802,023 | 1,270 | 10% |
| 7 | Massachusetts | 6,859,819 | 667 | 10% |
| 8 | Colorado | 5,607,154 | 587 | 10% |
| 9 | New Mexico | 2,088,070 | 208 | 10% |
| 10 | Montana | 1,050,493 | 106 | 10% |
| 11 | Nebraska | 1,920,076 | 170 | 9% |
| 12 | Delaware | 961,939 | 91 | 9% |
| 13 | Virginia | 8,470,020 | 650 | 8% |
| 14 | Indiana | 6,666,818 | 527 | 8% |
| 15 | Kansas | 2,913,123 | 232 | 8% |
| 16 | Pennsylvania | 12,805,537 | 889 | 7% |
| 17 | Georgia | 10,429,379 | 701 | 7% |
| 18 | South Carolina | 5,024,369 | 358 | 7% |
| 19 | Oklahoma | 3,930,864 | 284 | 7% |
| 20 | Nevada | 2,998,039 | 208 | 7% |
Physiology Teacher job outlook: Expert opinions
Our panel of physiology teacher experts
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Horacio Ferriz Ph.D.
Professor of Applied Geology and HydrogeologyWhat will help Physiology Teachers increase their earning potential?
Horacio Ferriz Ph.D.: Take some of your basic requirements for a Teaching Credential in your junior and senior years at college (Adolescent Psychology, Foundations of Secondary Education), and make sure to log some hours helping a local STEM teacher in the classroom.
What general advice would you give to a Physiology Teacher?
Horacio Ferriz Ph.D.: We have a critical lack of good teachers in the STEM disciplines, so pursuing this path will practically guarantee you a teaching position anywhere you care to live. We also need good journalism in the STEM disciplines, because there is so much misinformation out there.
What Physiology Teacher skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Horacio Ferriz Ph.D.: Hopefully you have it real clear in your mind that you want to pursue a career in Science Education, at the Elementary or Middle School level. If you have your sights on becoming a High School teacher you would be much better off pursuing a traditional major in Geology, Physics, Chemistry, or Biology. Physical Science would also be a good platform to pursue a career as a Science Journalist.
What's a day at work look like for a Physiology Teacher?
Anita Corbett Ph.D.: It depends on what job they have- also are we talking graduates from undergraduate education or from graduate training?
Will there be an enduring impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Physiology Teachers?
Anita Corbett Ph.D.: Yes--we all agree that there will be a back log of eligible applicants due to hiring freezes and lack of ability to gain relevant experience due to limited access to research experiences during the pandemic.
What will help Physiology Teachers increase their earning potential?
Anita Corbett Ph.D.: They should appropriately market their skills--and seek additional training to enhance their core skills--certificates that demonstrate this additional training has been obtained can be valuable.
What type of skills will young Physiology Teachers need?
Edward Bozzi: If graduates have very good wet lab skills, i.e., cell culturing, and that need will continue. Bioinformatics will be of increasing importance in the future. And graduates will have to be more knowledgeable in that area.
Will there be an enduring impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Physiology Teachers?
Edward Bozzi: I think the pandemic has emphasized the value of Biotechnology. Right now, eight recent graduates of URI's Biotechnology Program are working on the vaccine at Moderna. Local companies like EpiVax, a vaccine design company, are collaborating with a number of vaccine producing companies. Our Biotechnology students routinely intern there, and some are hired permanently. I see even more opportunities for Biotechnology graduates post COVID-19.
What experience really stands out on Physiology Teacher resumes?
Edward Bozzi: Having had one or more successful internships with a biotechnology company or organization is most important on a resume. I also think listing practiced lab skills is important.
What experience really stands out on Physiology Teacher resumes?
Kevin Hovel Ph.D.: What stands out is research experience in which a student has completed an independent project. Being involved in an ongoing research program in a university lab is excellent and very valuable. Still, the extra value is placed on the completion of an independent research project by the student. This demonstrates self-motivation and follow-through. Typically an independent project culminates in a presentation or report, or both. These also are precious experiences to list on a resume. Limited ability to communicate the results of research projects is a common weakness for students, in written form or orally.
What Physiology Teacher skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Kevin Hovel Ph.D.: This is pretty much the same answer to question 1. Look for opportunities to volunteer in research programs. Helping graduate students with their projects is very common. One thing that is sometimes overlooked when students are getting research experience is experience handling data. This involves organizing data, doing quality checks, and visually assessing the data (graphically) and statistically. Statistical analysis is another area in which students also tend to have less experience entering graduate school. A student will have a leg up on others if they have at least the basic understanding of standard analyses used in their field of study.
What technology do you think will become more important and prevalent for Physiology Teachers in the next 3-5 years?
Kevin Hovel Ph.D.: This is a hard question because Biology is extremely broad as a discipline. I am an ecologist, and my research is mostly outdoors and underwater. My research is pretty "low tech." For cell and molecular biologists, or evolutionary biologists, the technology applied is vastly different. I think many of those folks would answer with things like genomics (in particular, CRISPR), metagenomics, and bioinformatics. But your best bet is to ask some of them. I suggest Ricardo Zayas (rzayas@sdsu.edu) and Lluvia Flores-Renteria (lfloresrenteria@sdsu.edu).
What experience really stands out on Physiology Teacher resumes?
Maria Kalevitch Ph.D.: Well-rounded experience, along with technical skills, soft skills should be included like customer service/sales, ability to present and communicate with the customer, innovative approach to tasks, thinking about systems not just a part of the project, teamwork but also ability to think independently, life-long learning and passion to the profession, to name a few.
How do you envision technology impacting Physiology Teachers in the next 5 years?
Maria Kalevitch Ph.D.: Technology will be disruptive in the best sense possible; as an example, it will combine the tools like AI with humans/human factor to strengthen the educational field, and as an ROI-better prepared college graduates with industry input and collaboration.
Will there be an enduring impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Physiology Teachers?
Maria Kalevitch Ph.D.: In each obstacle, we should see an opportunity; this opportunity can be used to better the future of higher education; it is an evolutionary process that helps to use what we learn and bring it to the next level. To add - being adaptive, flexible, and agile
Are there any particularly good places in the United States for Physiology Teachers to find work opportunities?
Joshua French Ph.D.: With employers increasingly allowing their employees to work from him, particularly in knowledge-driven jobs such as statistics, the physical location of a job won't be as important in the future. However, you can expect that the majority of jobs will still be in larger cities with large tech and corporate presence. In the immediate future, states allowing companies more flexibility in operating normally will see a relative increase in the number of statistics jobs, as companies will be able to increase the amount of business performed in those areas.