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

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in New Jersey is $83,770 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 New Jersey is $86,430 a year. The median is $83,770.

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 New Jersey, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, secondary school earn under $62,210 a year and a quarter earn under $75,630.

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 New Jersey spans from $62,210 for the bottom 10% to $106,540 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $75,630 and $100,830 a year, with the overall median at $83,770.

On the median wage of $83,770, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $64,616 a year, or roughly $5,385 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 22.9%.

New Jersey takes $3,146 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $83,770, estimated take-home pay is roughly $5,385 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 $2,485 net.

Yes. The median in New Jersey is 26.4% above the national median of $66,270.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in New Jersey sit at 108.8 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.81 times the median household income of $103,556. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in New Jersey run at 108.8 against a national average of 100, with rents at 134.3, so $83,770 here buys about what $76,991 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $106,540 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $62,210.

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

The survey counted 2,320 of these jobs in New Jersey for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 24% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.