Program Payoff

Education, General programs in California

15 schools in California teach this, at certificate or associate level. The Department of Education publishes earnings for none of them, so the figures below are what the occupation itself pays.

What this work pays in California

Education Teachers, Postsecondary in California earn a median of $111,850 a year across 3,100 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

Occupation wages: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025.

Schools

SchoolCredentialMedian debtGraduate earnings, 2 yrsGraduates
Bakersfield College Bakersfield Associate's degree not published
College of the Sequoias Visalia Associate's degree not published 0
Contra Costa College San Pablo Associate's degree not published
Cuesta College San Luis Obispo Undergraduate certificate not published 95
Cuesta College San Luis Obispo Associate's degree not published 3
Diablo Valley College Pleasant Hill Associate's degree not published
Evergreen Valley College San Jose Associate's degree not published
Los Angeles Southwest College Los Angeles Undergraduate certificate not published 0
Mendocino College Ukiah Associate's degree not published 0
MiraCosta College Oceanside Associate's degree not published
Palomar College San Marcos Associate's degree not published 20
Riverside City College Riverside Associate's degree not published 0
Teachers College of San Joaquin Stockton Undergraduate certificate not published 210
Touro University Worldwide Los Alamitos Associate's degree not published 9
Woodland Community College Woodland Undergraduate certificate not published 2

A dash under earnings or debt means the U.S. Department of Education has not published a figure for that program — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates, which covers about four of every five programs. It never means zero, and it says nothing about whether the program is any good. Where a figure is shown, the number of graduates behind it is shown with it.

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Program and outcome figures: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10.