Education Jobs in Indianapolis, IN

The firm local anchor is BLS wage data: educational instruction and library occupations in Indianapolis had a $57,750 annual median wage, a $61,870 annual mean wage, and a $29.74 mean hourly wage in May 2025. More current posting-based signals are directionally useful but less exact: local posted salaries center on about $52k to $60k, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $46k to $95k, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts Indiana's mean offered salary on new openings for Education & Training at about $49,342 based on n=141.

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Advertised pay

Across the 80 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $33,280 at the 25th percentile, $39,520 at the median and $52,000 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Indianapolis is a workable but selective market for Education & Training right now. Metro unemployment was 3.3% in August 2026, local Education and Health Services employment was up 0.9969% year over year, and the broader metro nonfarm job base was down 1.0547% year over year. That means education-related demand is holding up better than the overall metro economy, but it is not a wide-open hiring market. Indiana Education & Training employment was essentially flat year over year, while active postings for the field were down 5.1% year over year according to Revelio Public Labor Statistics. In the local postings mix, most openings were entry or mid level and overwhelmingly on-site, which helps flexible applicants but limits remote-first seekers.

Best positioned: The best odds right now go to candidates who can work on-site and show classroom management, lesson planning, curriculum implementation, student assessment, and credible AI-savvy instruction across K-12 or higher-ed employers such as Ivy Tech Community College, Indiana University, HSE Schools, and KinderCare Learning Companies.

Main caution: Do not assume this is either a remote-friendly market or a fully stable school-funding market: about 95% of sampled postings were on-site, and IPS still faces referendum-linked budget risk even after saying its current reduction plan avoids district-wide educator layoffs.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 200 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Indiana University: 17 open roles
2. Marian University Indianapolis: 12 open roles
3. Indymca: 11 open roles
4. Learning Care Group: 11 open roles
5. Archindy: 7 open roles
6. Clark-Pleasant Community School Corp.: 7 open roles
7. La Petite Academy, Inc.: 6 open roles
8. Warren: 6 open roles
9. HSE Schools: 5 open roles
10. Premier Early Childhood: 5 open roles

Where the openings are

• Indianapolis: 124
• Carmel: 21
• Fishers: 14
• Avon: 8
• Westfield: 6
• Whiteland: 5
• Greenwood: 3
• Greenfield: 3

Work arrangement

on-site 185 (99%), hybrid 1 (1%), remote 1 (1%)

Where the demand is

Opportunity is spread across a long tail of employers rather than concentrated in one dominant buyer. In the last 90 days, the local sample showed more than 600 postings across more than 150 companies, and hiring was described as fragmented across employers. The most active named employers were Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis Public Schools, Indiana University, KinderCare Learning Companies, and HSE Schools. The biggest pool is still school-based work. Within local Education & Training postings, about 55% sat in education, about 10% in higher education, and about 5% each in wellness and fitness services, healthcare, and education administration programs. Callings.ai also counted 343 K-12 teaching, support, and leadership openings across six local districts in late August 2026, while Marian University listed 16 adjunct and lecturer openings across seven disciplines. Evidence is thinner for corporate L&D than for K-12 and campus-based hiring. That lane likely exists inside larger employers, but the strongest local signals right now are classroom, campus, early-childhood, and school-adjacent student-support work rather than a large stand-alone instructional-design boom.

• K-12 schools and district roles (high): This is the largest opportunity pool locally, supported by 343 openings across six districts and repeated demand for classroom management, lesson planning, and curriculum execution.
• Higher education and adjunct faculty (moderate): Ivy Tech is the most active named employer in the sample, and recent signals from Marian, IU Indianapolis, Purdue in Indianapolis, and UIndy point to ongoing faculty, adjunct, and student-success related work.
• Early childhood and youth programs (moderate): KinderCare Learning Companies is among the most active named employers, CPR appears as the most common named certification, and the market is heavily on-site.
• Corporate training and instructional design (limited): This path belongs in the category, but local evidence is thinner. It looks more promising for candidates who can pair facilitation with AI-enabled content design and training credentials.

Where to focus: Focus first on on-site K-12 and higher-ed roles where you can show classroom management, lesson planning, student assessment, curriculum execution, and practical AI or tech integration; treat corporate training as a narrower secondary lane.

Roles worth searching next

• Student success coordinator or academic advisor: Higher-ed employers are active locally, and UIndy's new five-year student-support and career-education initiative points to work that sits near teaching but is more retention and advising focused.
• Workforce or career-pathways program coordinator: Career-education expansion at UIndy suggests a real local bridge from instruction into program operations, partnerships, and learner support.
• Customer success manager at an EdTech company: Teaching and training skills transfer well to onboarding and product adoption, and a large share of current generative-AI EdTech jobs are remote nationally.
• Childcare or youth-program site manager: KinderCare is a visible local hirer, CPR shows up in local requirements, and this path rewards education-adjacent supervision and family-facing experience.

What postings ask for

• Classroom management (table_stakes | immediate): This was the most-requested hard skill in local postings, appearing in about 35% of the sampled market, so it is the clearest baseline screen for school-facing roles. Who: Entry-level teachers, substitutes moving into full-time roles, and career switchers targeting school settings.
• Lesson planning (table_stakes | immediate): Lesson planning showed up in about 20% of sampled postings and is one of the core proof points that you can run instruction from day one. Who: Anyone targeting classroom, tutoring, adjunct, or youth-program roles.
• Student assessment (table_stakes | immediate): Student assessment appears both in the structured skills list and in broader local demand signals, making it a reliable way to show outcomes orientation rather than just subject knowledge. Who: K-12 teachers, interventionists, adjuncts, and student-support candidates.
• Curriculum implementation and development (differentiator | near-term): Curriculum implementation appeared in about 15% of sampled postings and curriculum development in about 10%, which makes this especially useful for candidates moving beyond basic classroom delivery. Who: Mid-career teachers, department leads, faculty, and candidates seeking curriculum or program roles.
• Data literacy and analysis (differentiator | near-term): Local signals specifically call out data literacy, and data analysis appears in the sampled hard-skill mix, which matters for assessment-driven schools and student-success roles. Who: Mid-career educators, student-success applicants, and career switchers aiming at program roles.
• AI literacy and technology integration (premium | immediate): Local demand signals identify AI literacy and technology integration as differentiators, IU has expanded faculty-facing generative-AI training, and broader education guidance now treats AI literacy as essential. Who: Teachers, faculty, instructional designers, and corporate trainers who want to stand out in interviews now.

Questions about this market

What do Education & Training roles pay in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN?

The firm local anchor is BLS wage data: educational instruction and library occupations in Indianapolis had a $57,750 annual median wage, a $61,870 annual mean wage, and a $29.74 mean hourly wage in May 2025. More current posting-based signals are directionally useful but less exact: local posted salaries center on about $52k to $60k, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $46k to $95k, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts Indiana's mean offered salary on new openings for Education & Training at about $49,342 based on n=141. This is a moderate-pay market, not a premium-pay market. Indianapolis group pay was approximately 8.4% below the national group mean, so the same broad occupation family pays less here than the national benchmark.

Where is demand for Education & Training roles in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN concentrated?

Opportunity is spread across a long tail of employers rather than concentrated in one dominant buyer. In the last 90 days, the local sample showed more than 600 postings across more than 150 companies, and hiring was described as fragmented across employers. The most active named employers were Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis Public Schools, Indiana University, KinderCare Learning Companies, and HSE Schools. The biggest pool is still school-based work. Within local Education & Training postings, about 55% sat in education, about 10% in higher education, and about 5% each in wellness and fitness services, healthcare, and education administration programs. Callings.ai also counted 343 K-12 teaching, support, and leadership openings across six local districts in late August 2026, while Marian University listed 16 adjunct and lecturer openings across seven disciplines. Evidence is thinner for corporate L&D than for K-12 and campus-based hiring. That lane likely exists inside larger employers, but the strongest local signals right now are classroom, campus, early-childhood, and school-adjacent student-support work rather than a large stand-alone instructional-design boom.

Which employers are hiring the most Education & Training talent in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN?

Recent postings show the most activity from Ivy Tech Community College (50 postings), Indianapolis Public Schools (40 postings), Indiana University (30 postings), KinderCare Learning Companies (30 postings), HSE Schools (20 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Education & Training roles in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 1% are remote and 5% hybrid, with 94% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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