Special Education Teachers, Middle School (25-2053)

Occupation description:  Teach middle school subjects to educationally and physically handicapped students. Includes teachers who specialize and work with audibly and visually handicapped students and those who teach basic academic and life processes skills to the mentally impaired. Substitute teachers are included in "Teachers and Instructors, All Other" (25-3099).

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Employment and Job Openings

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2012 Wages

(1) indicates an hourly wage greater than $90, or an annual wage greater than $187,200.

(2) indicates that the confidence interval value could not be calculated.

Labor Force Indicators

2011 Worker Characteristics
Total workers	Nonresident workers	Percent nonresident	Percent age 45 plus	Percent age 50 plus
139	16	11.5	43.2	31.2

2011 Potential Supply
Qualified but working in another occupation	1
Currently employed in a lower paid occupation	0
UI claimants previously working in occupation	2

2011 ALEXsys Employment Data
Number of registrants	55
Number of job position postings	8
Ratio of registrants to job position postings	6.9

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