Teaching Assistant Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

SchoolHires had 1,195 open teaching assistant listings from 231 employers on November 13, 2026.

261 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 373 in the previous 30 days.

At least 27.7% of teaching assistant listings were part-time on November 13, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

The benefit teaching assistant listings named most often on November 13, 2026 was health insurance, in 20.9% of listings, followed by dental or vision coverage (17%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all teaching assistant listings.

The federal figure here is for teaching assistants, except postsecondary (SOC 25-9045), in elementary and secondary schools, the exact BLS occupation for teaching assistants, counted across public and private schools together.

The median wage for that occupation was $36,990 a year in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary (SOC 25-9045), Elementary and Secondary Schools (NAICS 611100, all ownerships), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $31,090 to $45,860 a year.

Employers hiring teaching assistants on SchoolHires advertise a median of $19.00 an hour across 73 employers on November 13, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

For pay by state, percentile and experience, see the teaching assistant salary guide.

Texas had the most open teaching assistant listings on November 13, 2026, with 166 (13.9% of the national total).

California followed with 138 (11.5%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with teaching assistant openings in Texas.

231 employers had open teaching assistant listings on SchoolHires on November 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 36.7% of them.

117 employers (50.6%) had exactly one open teaching assistant listing.

Employers in all industries reported 1,420,350 teaching assistants (SOC 25-9045) on payroll in May 2025, at a median of $36,780 a year; the count leaves out the self-employed (BLS OEWS).

In privately owned elementary and secondary schools alone, BLS counted 103,670 teaching assistants on payroll in May 2025, with a median annual wage of $37,090 (BLS OEWS, industry 611105).

BLS projects employment of teaching assistants to change by -0.3% from 2025 to 2035, from 1,463,000 to 1,458,000 jobs, with about 176,200 openings a year as workers leave the occupation (BLS Employment Projections 2025–35).

BLS lists some college, no degree, as the typical entry-level education for teacher assistants (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025–35 projections).

For how to enter the field, see the teaching assistant career guide.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid teaching assistant listing on SchoolHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all teaching assistant jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS publishes teaching assistant wages as annual figures only, while most listings post hourly pay, so the two are never converted into each other. The BLS occupation is exact for the role but counts public and private schools together; the privately owned schools row (industry 611105) is the only BLS figure for private schools alone.