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What teaching assistants make
Median for the group
$36,780
Bottom tenth
$27,150
Top tenth
$50,040
The survey takes these figures from the wider group Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary. The national median is $36,780 a year. The bottom tenth earn $27,150 or less and the top tenth $50,040 or more (2025 federal wage survey). 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.