Compared with the local labor market
Full-Time Dc 37 Family Paraprofessional pay vs. the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area
Across all employers in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, the median wage for Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary — about 126,920 people — is $38,890. Department of Education Hourly Support Staff pays a median base salary of $30,866 for this role, 21% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Department of Education Hourly Support Staff sits in the local pay range
$32,240
$36,010
$38,890
$47,180
$56,740
Department of Education Hourly Support Staff median · $30,866
The bar is the range of annual wages for Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary across every employer in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Education Hourly Support Staff’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary — about 1,420,350 people — is $36,780. Department of Education Hourly Support Staff’s median base salary is 16% below that national figure, about the 24th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$27,150
$31,060
$36,780
$45,360
$50,040
Department of Education Hourly Support Staff median · $30,866
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 990 of 1,589 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Department of Education Hourly Support Staff is $35,164, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.