Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $48,030. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 111,150 people in May 2024, 0.07% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 12,150 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.0% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Oklahoma, whose location quotient of 2.37 says this work is 2.37 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

One in ten workers in this field earns $38,680 or less, and one in ten earns $106,580 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.8 to 1 and the annual gap is $67,900. The mean ($68,710) versus median ($61,490) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

The state spread for Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary runs from the $82,980 median in Wisconsin down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (12,150 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary stands number 249 by employment and number 386 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 19% less than its group median, and it supplies 1.2% of the group's 8,947,690 jobs. In 21 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $61,490, 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

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 4,480 jobs, 4.0% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, St. George, UT posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $33,690 a year, against $111,330 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $5,124 a month before tax, $2,365 biweekly, $1,182 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($48,030) to the 75th ($80,070) is worth $32,040 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $67,639 would sit between the median ($61,490) and the 75th percentile ($80,070), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $48,030, is $13,460 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Educational Instruction and Library Occupations

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Postsecondary Teachers, All Other, Librarians and Media Collections Specialists, Teachers and Instructors, All Other, Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other, Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education, Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.