Occupation / job
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School pays $65,030 at the midpoint, 30% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
16,870 people work as Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.
This work suits people who can plan a year, deliver it daily and adjust it hourly, in front of an audience that has no obligation to be interested.
We carry no verified training length for Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The middle half runs $58,690 to $79,990 — $1,775 a month between the quarters, a 1.4x ratio. Spreads this narrow are usually set by a grade or a scale, so the negotiation you are imagining probably is not available.
Even the bottom quarter of Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School earns $58,690 — $28.21 an hour and $8,670 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.
Avoid it if you need the compensation to track the contribution. In this field it reliably does not.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 16,870 people employed as Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.
What the spread tells you
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.4x. In a band that narrow, $65,030 is a genuinely representative number for Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School and the main variable left is where you live.
In cash terms the middle half of Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School runs $58,690 to $79,990 — $21,300 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $65,030.
Between $58,690 and $79,990 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $65,030. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $14,960; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $21,300.
The upper half of the middle range — $65,030 to $79,990, or $14,960 — is far longer than the lower half at $6,340. In a shape like this an average would flatter Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School considerably, and would describe nobody.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School is $31.26 an hour. The quarters sit at $28.21 and $38.45, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $65,030 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School, the hourly figure is $65,030 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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