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

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Mississippi is $57,910 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 Mississippi is $57,060 a year. The median is $57,910.

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 Mississippi, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, secondary school earn under $47,300 a year and a quarter earn under $48,410.

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 Mississippi spans from $47,300 for the bottom 10% to $70,400 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $48,410 and $62,010 a year, with the overall median at $57,910.

On the median wage of $57,910, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $47,126 a year, or roughly $3,927 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 18.6%.

Mississippi takes $1,584 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $57,910, estimated take-home pay is roughly $3,927 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 $1,813 net.

No. The median in Mississippi is 12.6% below the national median of $66,270.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Mississippi sit at 87 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 1.03 times the median household income of $56,447. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Mississippi run at 87 against a national average of 100, with rents at 56.5, so $57,910 here buys about what $66,599 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $70,400 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $47,300.

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

The survey counted 1,770 of these jobs in Mississippi for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 112% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.