Health Educators

Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Collect and analyze data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May serve as a resource to assist individuals, other healthcare workers, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.

$63,000
Median Annual Pay
Jobs growth:
+4% projected 2024–2034
Bachelor's degree
Typical Entry-Level Education

What They Do

Health education specialists develop programs to teach people about conditions affecting well-being.

Programs That Prepare You

College programs linked to this occupation, ranked by graduate earnings

Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(professional)University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus, CO
$272,682
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)Virginia Commonwealth University, VA
$259,378
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(grad-cert)Tufts University, MA
$254,466
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)University of Illinois Chicago, IL
$250,706
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)Saint Louis University, MO
$249,068
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)University of Connecticut-Avery Point, CT
$247,820
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus, CT
$247,820
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)University of Connecticut-Stamford, CT
$247,820
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)University of Connecticut, CT
$247,820
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)University of Connecticut-Waterbury Campus, CT
$247,820
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)University of Florida, FL
$246,053
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(grad-cert)University of Illinois Chicago, IL
$243,437
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, MI
$242,474
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(grad-cert)Saint Louis University, MO
$240,137
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)Indiana University-Indianapolis, IN
$238,129
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)Boston University, MA
$234,309
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)Oregon Health & Science University, OR
$234,309
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)Metropolitan State University, MN
$234,309
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ
$234,309
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, TN
$234,309
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)Minnesota State University-Mankato, MN
$234,309
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)Case Western Reserve University, OH
$234,309
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)Nova Southeastern University, FL
$234,309
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans, LA
$234,309
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences(masters)Augusta University, GA
$234,309

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