Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School

At $66,270 against a $50,020 midpoint, Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School pays $16,250 a year more than the typical American job — $7.81 an hour. Nothing pays that much more for free, and the thing it is paid for is what you should be reading about.

National employment is 111,420. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.

School teaching suits people who can manage thirty people at once and still notice the one who is struggling, every day, for a whole year at a time.

How long it takes to become one of the 111,420 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

A quarter of Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School earn under $60,590 and a quarter over $80,060: 1.3x, and $19,470 between the ends. That is a narrow band — enough room to be paid better than average, not enough for the occupation to be a route to a materially different income.

At $60,590, or $29.12 an hour, the 25th percentile sits $10,570 above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Occupations with floors this high almost always have a requirement holding them there.

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 111,420 people employed as Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary 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.

A 1.3x spread means the top quarter of Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School is not doing a different job from the bottom quarter, just a slightly better-paid version of the same one. Between $60,590 and $80,060 is the whole of the negotiation.

In cash terms the middle half of Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School runs $60,590 to $80,060 — $19,470 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $66,270.

The 75th percentile is $80,060. Reaching it from the $66,270 midpoint is $13,790 a year; reaching it from the $60,590 that the bottom quarter of Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School earn is $19,470.

From $66,270 the drop to $60,590 is $5,680 and the climb to $80,060 is $13,790. When the upper half of the range is that much longer, the average is pulled well above the median — which is exactly why this site publishes the median.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $31.86 at the midpoint for Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School, $29.12 at the 25th percentile and $38.49 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.