Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School salary

SOC 25-2032 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$66,270

per year, nationally

Middle half

$60,590–$80,060

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

111,420

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

-1.8%

6,200 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$50,040$101,340

10th: $50,040
25th: $60,590
Median: $66,270
75th: $80,060
90th: $101,340

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Bachelor's degree
Related work experience: Less than 5 years
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where career/technical education teachers, secondary school earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Washington	$101,180	107.0	3,460	1.36×
2	Connecticut	$100,810	103.6	1,910	1.57×
3	Massachusetts	$98,020	105.8	3,130	1.20×
4	New Jersey	$83,770	108.8	2,320	0.76×
5	Rhode Island	$81,820	102.3	90	0.25×
6	California	$80,620	110.7	3,260	0.25×
7	New York	$79,820	107.9	7,610	1.10×
8	Ohio	$79,230	92.8	5,130	1.29×
9	Delaware	$79,230	99.8	560	1.61×
10	Vermont	$79,220	98.0	220	1.01×
11	Georgia	$78,760	96.3	1,680	0.48×
12	Oregon	$78,380	103.4	750	0.53×
13	Maryland	$78,320	105.0	690	0.35×
14	Alaska	$78,130	102.4	170	0.71×
15	Maine	$78,050	97.0	170	0.37×
16	Illinois	$77,950	100.0	2,780	0.64×
17	Michigan	$77,400	96.2	1,800	0.57×
18	New Hampshire	$76,320	104.2	450	0.92×
19	Pennsylvania	$75,760	97.6	4,840	1.11×
20	Virginia	$75,580	101.1	3,500	1.19×
21	Wisconsin	$74,310	94.1	1,420	0.67×
22	Colorado	$72,750	103.1	1,250	0.61×
23	Utah	$72,380	98.9	730	0.59×
24	South Carolina	$72,120	93.7	1,150	0.70×
25	Minnesota	$71,650	98.6	880	0.42×
26	New Mexico	$66,750	92.2	100	0.17×
27	Texas	$64,610	97.1	32,250	3.20×
28	Nevada	$64,510	100.0	150	0.13×
29	Nebraska	$63,180	90.1	1,310	1.78×
30	Arizona	$62,980	100.7	660	0.29×
31	Wyoming	$62,570	92.7	210	1.02×
32	Florida	$62,140	103.4	6,820	0.96×
33	Arkansas	$61,780	86.9	1,000	1.08×
34	Tennessee	$61,700	91.9	2,940	1.25×
35	North Dakota	$61,500	89.0	640	2.08×
36	Louisiana	$61,300	88.2	1,530	1.10×
37	Kentucky	$61,130	90.2	330	0.23×
38	Idaho	$60,510	95.5	1,140	1.85×
39	Alabama	$59,470	88.8	—	—
40	Missouri	$59,300	90.8	2,000	0.95×
41	Oklahoma	$58,800	87.8	1,170	0.96×
42	North Carolina	$58,600	94.3	2,650	0.75×
43	Kansas	$58,300	90.1	1,050	1.02×
44	Mississippi	$57,910	87.0	1,770	2.12×
45	West Virginia	$57,760	89.5	1,000	1.99×
46	Iowa	$57,660	87.8	640	0.57×
47	Indiana	$56,390	93.3	1,310	0.57×
48	South Dakota	$56,070	88.6	360	1.10×
49	Montana	$55,190	94.6	260	0.72×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where career/technical education teachers, secondary school wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for career/technical education teachers, secondary school

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$126,160	108.8	—	—
2	Fresno, CA	$105,570	102.2	260	0.78×
3	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$103,580	103.7	130	1.40×
4	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$103,240	105.6	120	1.83×
5	New Haven, CT	$102,990	104.6	300	1.50×
6	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$102,420	100.1	190	2.06×
7	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$102,180	111.1	1,430	0.96×
8	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$101,800	115.6	—	—
9	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$101,620	102.7	510	1.19×
10	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$101,250	108.3	1,730	0.89×
11	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$100,720	100.4	270	2.95×
12	Amherst Town-Northampton, MA	$100,690	100.2	60	1.36×
13	Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA	$100,560	103.9	100	2.64×
14	Waterbury-Shelton, CT	$100,290	99.8	260	2.23×
15	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$99,950	102.4	90	2.28×
16	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$99,940	100.3	250	1.36×
17	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$99,830	112.6	5,030	0.74×
18	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$99,730	106.9	400	1.37×
19	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$99,730	100.9	80	0.92×
20	Yakima, WA	$99,720	95.5	200	2.87×
21	Walla Walla, WA	$99,420	98.5	30	1.83×
22	Bellingham, WA	$98,380	103.3	100	1.55×
23	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$98,260	101.8	570	1.12×
24	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$98,170	103.6	1,640	0.51×
25	Barnstable Town, MA	$97,100	98.4	120	1.73×
26	Modesto, CA	$96,940	104.1	120	0.86×
27	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$96,250	110.4	110	0.14×
28	Worcester, MA	$95,780	102.5	410	1.65×
29	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$93,830	109.4	280	1.46×
30	Merced, CA	$93,780	98.3	40	0.63×
31	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$90,990	103.2	80	0.46×
32	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$86,420	105.4	530	0.62×
33	El Centro, CA	$85,680	95.2	40	0.76×
34	Kingston, NY	$85,500	100.7	80	1.95×
35	Columbus, OH	$84,820	95.5	230	0.29×
36	York-Hanover, PA	$84,300	96.0	160	1.21×
37	Lexington-Fayette, KY	$83,320	92.9	40	0.18×
38	Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI	$82,520	95.5	180	0.43×
39	Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC	$82,310	98.0	70	1.17×
40	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$81,950	113.6	810	0.18×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where career/technical education teachers, secondary school wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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