How much do career/technical education teachers, middle school make in Alabama?

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, middle school in Alabama is $58,410 a year.

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.

BLS’s mean (average) wage for career/technical education teachers, middle school in Alabama is $66,590 a year. The median is $58,410.

The mean sits higher when a smaller group of high earners pulls the average up. For a typical paycheck, the median is the better middle.

BLS does not publish starting pay. The closest figure it does publish is the low end of the range: in Alabama, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, middle school earn under $44,140 a year and a quarter earn under $48,240.

New hires often start somewhere in that band, but the May 2025 survey does not record experience, so read it as a floor to compare an offer against rather than a typical first salary.

The overall salary range for career/technical education teachers, middle school in Alabama spans from $44,140 for the bottom 10% to $105,190 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $48,240 and $80,370 a year, with the overall median at $58,410.

On the median wage of $58,410, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $46,673 a year, or roughly $3,889 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 20.1%.

Alabama takes $2,439 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $58,410, estimated take-home pay is roughly $3,889 a month after federal, state, and FICA taxes.

For workers paid on a standard biweekly schedule (26 pay periods per year), each paycheck is approximately $1,795 net.

No. The median in Alabama is 10.2% below the national median of $65,030.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Alabama sit at 88.8 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.91 times the median household income of $63,999. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Alabama run at 88.8 against a national average of 100, with rents at 61.8, so $58,410 here buys about what $65,760 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $105,190 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $44,140.

Experience, specialty, employer and the part of Alabama someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.

The survey counted 640 of these jobs in Alabama for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 180% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.