Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School worker at that point in the distribution, so $78,270 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 14,200 Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School jobs in May 2024, which is 0.01% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Alabama, where the location quotient is 3.70, meaning the occupation holds 3.70 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 3,780 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 44.2% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $98,430, which is 2.1 times the $47,090 at the 10th, a difference of $51,340 annually. Because the mean wage ($68,690) sits above the median ($63,620), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

The state spread for Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School runs from the $101,340 median in Washington down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (3,780 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School stands number 625 by employment and number 351 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Educational Instruction and Library Occupations, the group median wage is $76,210 across 64 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 17% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 15 of the 38 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $63,620, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is the largest metro employer with 930 jobs, 6.5% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $65,100 a year, against $89,550 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $63,620 a year is $5,302 a month gross, $2,447 every two weeks, $1,223 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($55,920) to the 75th ($78,270) is worth $22,350 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $5,302 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $69,982 would sit between the median ($63,620) and the 75th percentile ($78,270), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $55,920, is $7,700 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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