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

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Massachusetts is $98,020 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 Massachusetts is $93,230 a year. The median is $98,020.

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 Massachusetts, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, secondary school earn under $77,530 a year and a quarter earn under $80,930.

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 Massachusetts spans from $77,530 for the bottom 10% to $111,560 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $80,930 and $103,310 a year, with the overall median at $98,020.

On the median wage of $98,020, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $73,206 a year, or roughly $6,101 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 25.3%.

Massachusetts takes $4,581 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $98,020, estimated take-home pay is roughly $6,101 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 $2,816 net.

Yes. The median in Massachusetts is 47.9% above the national median of $66,270.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Massachusetts sit at 105.8 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.94 times the median household income of $103,960. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Massachusetts run at 105.8 against a national average of 100, with rents at 128.1, so $98,020 here buys about what $92,684 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $111,560 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $77,530.

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

The survey counted 3,130 of these jobs in Massachusetts for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 20% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.