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

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, middle school in Missouri is $52,630 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 Missouri is $61,010 a year. The median is $52,630.

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 Missouri, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, middle school earn under $41,040 a year and a quarter earn under $46,550.

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 Missouri spans from $41,040 for the bottom 10% to $100,120 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $46,550 and $71,190 a year, with the overall median at $52,630.

On the median wage of $52,630, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $42,940 a year, or roughly $3,578 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 18.4%.

Missouri takes $1,528 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $52,630, estimated take-home pay is roughly $3,578 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 $1,652 net.

No. The median in Missouri is 19.1% below the national median of $65,030.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Missouri sit at 90.8 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.74 times the median household income of $70,702. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Missouri run at 90.8 against a national average of 100, with rents at 69.9, so $52,630 here buys about what $57,952 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $100,120 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $41,040.

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

The survey counted 240 of these jobs in Missouri for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 25% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.