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

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, middle school in Connecticut is $95,680 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 Connecticut is $90,610 a year. The median is $95,680.

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 Connecticut, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, middle school earn under $61,990 a year and a quarter earn under $73,890.

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 Connecticut spans from $61,990 for the bottom 10% to $120,580 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $73,890 and $107,230 a year, with the overall median at $95,680.

On the median wage of $95,680, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $71,428 a year, or roughly $5,952 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 25.4%.

Connecticut takes $4,712 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $95,680, estimated take-home pay is roughly $5,952 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 $2,747 net.

Yes. The median in Connecticut is 47.1% above the national median of $65,030.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Connecticut sit at 103.6 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 1 times the median household income of $95,781. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Connecticut run at 103.6 against a national average of 100, with rents at 117, so $95,680 here buys about what $92,346 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $120,580 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $61,990.

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

The survey counted 120 of these jobs in Connecticut for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 37% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.