Which pays more, Teacher 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

Teacher vs Teaching Assistant

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit within 3.3% apart. There is 2.1× more demand for Teacher. Teacher is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 10.5%. Listings for Teaching Assistant move faster — median age 31 days against 45.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Teacher	Teaching Assistant	Gap
Open postings	65,766	31,014	+34,752
Posted this week	4,367	2,515
Median salary	$60,000	$62,000	$-2k
25th percentile	$47.5k	$49k
75th percentile	$74.5k	$77k
Salary disclosed	7.7%	7.6%
Remote share	13.5%	3.0%	+10.5pp
Median age of posting	45d	31d
Open over 60 days	40.4%	47.8%
Visa sponsorship	14.3%	17.5%

Pay

Pay distribution

Teacher

$27k$104k

Teaching Assistant

$28k$107k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Teacher

just posted45d median90d+

Teaching Assistant

just posted31d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Teacher — technologies

Terraform

72.0%

65.8%

TypeScript

59.6%

HubSpot

53.4%

AWS

47.2%

Node.js

41.0%

Salesforce

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%

Teacher — employers

Cobalt Financial

9.4%

Halcyon Energy

8.7%

Solstice Biotech

8.0%

Rivergate Media

7.2%

Beacon Robotics

6.5%

Meridian Software

5.8%

Northwind Systems

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 Instructional Designer 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%.