Which pays more, Instructional Designer or Teaching Assistant?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Instructional Designer vs Teaching Assistant

Instructional Designer pays more: a median of $64,500 against $62,000. Demand is comparable on both sides. Listings for Teaching Assistant move faster — median age 31 days against 71.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Instructional Designer	Teaching Assistant	Gap
Open postings	34,597	31,014	+3,583
Posted this week	890	2,515
Median salary	$64,500	$62,000	+$2.5k
25th percentile	$51k	$49k
75th percentile	$80k	$77k
Salary disclosed	7.2%	7.6%
Remote share	6.8%	3.0%	+3.8pp
Median age of posting	71d	31d
Open over 60 days	45.6%	47.8%
Visa sponsorship	22.1%	17.5%

Pay

Pay distribution

Instructional Designer

$29k$112k

Teaching Assistant

$28k$107k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Instructional Designer

just posted71d median90d+

Teaching Assistant

just posted31d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Instructional Designer — technologies

Figma

72.0%

Terraform

65.8%

React

59.6%

Tableau

53.4%

dbt

47.2%

Swift

41.0%

Java

34.8%

Teaching Assistant — technologies

AWS

72.0%

Terraform

65.8%

TypeScript

59.6%

Spark

53.4%

SQL

47.2%

PostgreSQL

41.0%

Tableau

34.8%

Instructional Designer — employers

Umbra Security

9.4%

Vantage Logistics

8.7%

Tidewater Insurance

8.0%

Brightline Retail

7.2%

Fairmount Legal

6.5%

Cobalt Financial

5.8%

Aperture Labs

5.1%

Teaching Assistant — employers

Ironbark Manufacturing

9.4%

Kestrel Health

8.7%

Meridian Software

8.0%

Rivergate Media

7.2%

Fairmount Legal

6.5%

Solstice Biotech

5.8%

Umbra Security

5.1%

More comparisons

Other Education comparisons

Instructional Designer vs Teacher Teacher vs Teaching Assistant

Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.