How much do career/technical education teachers, secondary school make in Alaska?

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Alaska is $78,130 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, secondary school in Alaska is $78,420 a year. The median is $78,130.

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 Alaska, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, secondary school earn under $59,190 a year and a quarter earn under $67,360.

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, secondary school in Alaska spans from $59,190 for the bottom 10% to $99,690 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $67,360 and $84,910 a year, with the overall median at $78,130.

On the median wage of $78,130, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $63,794 a year, or roughly $5,316 a month.

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

Alaska levies no state income tax on wages, so nothing is withheld for it.

On the median annual salary of $78,130, estimated take-home pay is roughly $5,316 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 $2,454 net.

Yes. The median in Alaska is 17.9% above the national median of $66,270.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Alaska sit at 102.4 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.84 times the median household income of $92,788. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Alaska run at 102.4 against a national average of 100, with rents at 93.8, so $78,130 here buys about what $76,329 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $99,690 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $59,190.

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

The survey counted 170 of these jobs in Alaska for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 29% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.