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

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Florida is $62,140 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 Florida is $64,760 a year. The median is $62,140.

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 Florida, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, secondary school earn under $49,540 a year and a quarter earn under $53,180.

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 Florida spans from $49,540 for the bottom 10% to $78,860 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $53,180 and $74,150 a year, with the overall median at $62,140.

On the median wage of $62,140, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $52,109 a year, or roughly $4,342 a month.

That is after federal and FICA tax, an effective rate of 16.1%.

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

On the median annual salary of $62,140, estimated take-home pay is roughly $4,342 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 $2,004 net.

No. The median in Florida is 6.2% below the national median of $66,270.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Florida sit at 103.4 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.83 times the median household income of $74,568. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Florida run at 103.4 against a national average of 100, with rents at 122.1, so $62,140 here buys about what $60,089 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $78,860 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $49,540.

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

The survey counted 6,820 of these jobs in Florida for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 4% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.