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Survey participants (N = 115) in Wyoming completed a questionnaire designed to elicit responses about multiple factors and projected career plans in one year and in five years  . The vast majority of participants planned to remain in their jobs the following year, and 65% of participants planned to stay in their jobs five years in the future  . However, 21  .4% of participants planned to migrate to different teaching jobs in five years and 12 . 1% planned to leave the profession altogether . The most impactful variables for migration or attrition in five years were satisfaction with non-instructional duties, teaching load, level of faculty influence, teacher autonomy, opportunities for collaboration, and recognition for teachers’ work  . Implications for practice and future research are discussed  .  \nKeywords: career decisions; music teacher attrition; music teacher retention; rural music education; rural music educators  \nIntroduction  \nIssues of teacher attrition, retention, and career choice are closely examined facets of the general education research literature because they are central to the well-being of the profession (Bernhard, 2007; Boyd et al., 2011; Guarino et al., 2006) . These issues can be urgent and informative to educational stakeholders as they attempt to address teacher shortages and related problems (Marvel et al., 2006; Sutcher et al., 2016) . Researchers have attempted to collect meaningful data in a multitude of ways, including following reported teacher attrition as well as teachers’ intended career paths. As such, researchers using such methods have examined the effectiveness of using teachers’ career intentions and have found that  \nContributions to Music Education  \nteacher career intentions are reliable predictors of actual career plans (Vandenberg & Barnes-Nelson, 1999) . In music education specifically, researchers have been interested in these issues (Boyd et al., 2011; Hancock, 2008; Matthews & Koner, 2017; Russell, 2008, 2012; Scheib, 2004) and have made them central to several professional endeavors and professional gatherings. For example, the Society for Music Teacher Education (SMTE) created an Area of Strategic Planning and Action (ASPA) focused on teacher attrition. The often unique nature of music educators’work makes them a reasonable focus of additional and connected research into teacher attrition, migration, and career paths.  \nConsequently, music education researchers have examined career path issues and have formed a relatively detailed profile of inservice music educators. Music educators have cited parental and administrative support as well as student success as contributors to their job satisfaction (Heston et al., 1996). Unfortunately, music educators have previously reported lower levels of job satisfaction when unruly student behavior is present (Lander et al., 2008) and when they perceive insufficient administrative support (Krueger, 2000). Regarding their day-to-day teaching, music educators are more likely to teach in multiple buildings within a school district than their colleagues (Gardner, 2010) and have reported troubling feelings of isolation (McLain, 2005; Robison, 2017; Sindberg & Lipscomb, 2005) . One heartening trend in the literature is the growing number of studies addressing the needs of elementary general music (EGM) teachers who usually entered their university programs expecting to teach in secondary ensemble contexts (Rickelset al, 2013), but find themselves in the sometimes more plentiful EGM settings (Corfield-Adams, 2012; Groulx, 2015; Kuebel, 2017, 2019; Robinson, 2010; Salvador & Corbett, 2016; Shouldice, 2013, 2017) .  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