Farm and Home Management Educators vs Instructional Coordinators: $60K vs $77K Median Pay

Farm and Home Management Educators vs Instructional Coordinators: what changes?

Consider Farm and Home Management Educators if you want to instruct and advise individuals and families engaged in agriculture, agricultural-related processes, or home management activities. Consider Instructional Coordinators if you would rather develop instructional material, coordinate educational content, and incorporate current technology into instruction in order to provide guidelines to educators and instructors for developing curricula and…. Both list master's degree; compare training and prior experience separately. Prior experience in a related occupation is typically needed for Instructional Coordinators (5 years or more).

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BLS 2025 wages and 2025–2035 projections. National medians are not starting offers. Occupation size is not a count of vacancies. View the BLS data.

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Farm and Home Management Educators

National median pay (2025): $60,220
Route into the job: Master's degree
Prior related experience: No prior related occupation is typically required; employer requirements vary.
Training and licensing: BLS does not list a separate on-the-job training requirement. Employers may still provide orientation and role-specific training.
Work to investigate: Advise farmers and demonstrate techniques in areas such as feeding and health maintenance of livestock, growing and harvesting practices, and financial planning.
Annual openings (2025–2035): 800

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BLS projects employment to shrink 3.2% from 2025 to 2035. Openings can still occur when existing workers leave.

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Instructional Coordinators

National median pay (2025): $77,440
Route into the job: Master's degree; Prior related experience: 5 years or more
Prior related experience: Prior related experience: 5 years or more.
Training and licensing: BLS does not list a separate on-the-job training requirement. Employers may still provide orientation and role-specific training.
Work to investigate: Observe work of teaching staff to evaluate performance and to recommend changes that could strengthen teaching skills.
Annual openings (2025–2035): 23,100

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BLS lists 5 years or more of related experience. This is normally reached through feeder roles, not directly from school.

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How the national numbers differ

Instructional Coordinators has the edge on annual openings

Instructional Coordinators is at 23,100 annual openings, compared with 800 annual openings for Farm and Home Management Educators.

Instructional Coordinators has the edge on median pay

Instructional Coordinators is at $77,440, compared with $60,220 for Farm and Home Management Educators.

Instructional Coordinators has the edge on projected growth

Instructional Coordinators is at 1.6% projected growth, compared with -3.2% projected growth for Farm and Home Management Educators.

24.5/ 100

Farm and Home Management Educators

55.1/ 100

Instructional Coordinators

Each available metric is ranked from 0 to 100 against the careers on ChooseField. The weighted average uses this profile: pay 30%, growth 25%, openings 30%, preparation level 15%. Missing values are not scored as zero; their weights are redistributed across available metrics. Occupation size has zero weight: employment is not accessible vacancies. Preparation categories do not measure admission difficulty or years without earnings. The score summarizes national measures; local opportunities and personal fit still need separate consideration.

Detailed evidence

Farm and Home Management Educators vs Instructional Coordinators

Dimension	Farm and Home Management Educators	Instructional Coordinators
Median pay (2025)	$60,220	$77,440
Pay percentile	48.4 percentile	68.2 percentile
Projected growth (2025–2035)	-3.2%	1.6%
Annual openings (2025–2035)	800	23,100
2025 employment	9,700	248,700
How you qualify	Master's degree	Master's degree; Prior related experience: 5 years or more
O*NET preparation group	Job Zone 5	Job Zone 5
Related work experience	No prior related occupation is typically required; employer requirements vary.	Prior related experience: 5 years or more.
On-the-job training	BLS does not list a separate on-the-job training requirement. Employers may still provide orientation and role-specific training.	BLS does not list a separate on-the-job training requirement. Employers may still provide orientation and role-specific training.

The table reports national benchmarks and reviewed work descriptions. It does not rate personal suitability, job security, or physical safety.

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Farm and Home Management Educators vs Instructional Coordinators: what changes?

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How the national numbers differ

Instructional Coordinators has the edge on annual openings

Instructional Coordinators has the edge on median pay

Instructional Coordinators has the edge on projected growth

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