How much do career/technical education teachers, postsecondary make in North Carolina?

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, postsecondary in North Carolina is $62,390 a year, or $30.00 an hour.

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, postsecondary in North Carolina is $63,320 a year. The median is $62,390.

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.

The median hourly wage is $30.00. At a full-time year that lines up with about $62,390 a year.

BLS May 2025; hourly and annual figures come from the same survey.

BLS does not publish starting pay. The closest figure it does publish is the low end of the range: in North Carolina, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, postsecondary earn under $44,680 a year and a quarter earn under $51,840 ($21.48 and $24.92 an hour).

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, postsecondary in North Carolina spans from $44,680 for the bottom 10% to $82,010 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $51,840 and $74,820 a year, with the overall median at $62,390.

On the median wage of $62,390, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $50,330 a year, or roughly $4,194 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 19.3%.

North Carolina takes $1,981 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $62,390, estimated take-home pay is roughly $4,194 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 $1,936 net.

No. The median in North Carolina is 2.2% below the national median of $63,820.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in North Carolina sit at 94.3 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.86 times the median household income of $72,388. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in North Carolina run at 94.3 against a national average of 100, with rents at 81.4, so $62,390 here buys about what $66,143 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $82,010 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $44,680.

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

The survey counted 6,510 of these jobs in North Carolina for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 80% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.