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What teaching assistants make
Typical
$36,780
Starting out
$27,150
Experienced, top tenth
$50,040
The national median is $36,780 a year, and the bottom tenth start near $27,150. Read those figures carefully: a lot of these jobs are part time during the school year with no pay over the summer, so what actually lands in your account can be lower than an annual number suggests.