What does a Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary
actually do all day?
top skill Reading Comprehensioncore tasks 6median pay $42,910AI exposure 10/100
Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary is moderately paced, mixed sitting & moving, people-heavy work.
What this job actually does all day
The representative tasks O*NET analysts recorded for this role — not a glossy job ad, the real work.
- Teach undergraduate-level courses.
- Evaluate and grade examinations, assignments, or papers, and record grades.
- Lead discussion sections, tutorials, or laboratory sections.
- Develop teaching materials, such as syllabi, visual aids, answer keys, supplementary notes, or course Web sites.
- Inform students of the procedures for completing and submitting class work, such as lab reports.
- Return assignments to students in accordance with established deadlines.
Skills & environment
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The skills it demands most
What the environment feels like
Deadline pressure: moderateConflict & friction: rarely deals with conflictNeed to be exact: precision is criticalTime spent sitting: moderateContact with people: constantly dealing with people
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How this is built. Tasks, skills, and work-environment ratings come from the
U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET occupational analysis — job analysts survey real workers, so this is the
closest thing to "what the job is actually like" in public data. Skill scores are O*NET Importance
ratings and environment measures are Context ratings — both on O*NET's 1–5 scale
(1 = the floor: not important / never). We rescale them so 1 maps to 0 and 5 maps to 100, giving a
relative reading for easy comparison — it is not a percentage. This task-and-skill detail comes straight from the O*NET database — it's
pulled straight from the survey, not invented. Figures describe the typical role, not any one person's job.
