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

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in New York is $79,820 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 York is $87,100 a year. The median is $79,820.

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 York, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, secondary school earn under $59,490 a year and a quarter earn under $63,600.

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 York spans from $59,490 for the bottom 10% to $130,160 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $63,600 and $103,800 a year, with the overall median at $79,820.

On the median wage of $79,820, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $61,270 a year, or roughly $5,106 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 23.2%.

New York takes $3,714 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $79,820, estimated take-home pay is roughly $5,106 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 $2,357 net.

Yes. The median in New York is 20.4% above the national median of $66,270.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in New York sit at 107.9 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.93 times the median household income of $85,974. 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 York run at 107.9 against a national average of 100, with rents at 122.2, so $79,820 here buys about what $73,962 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $130,160 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $59,490.

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

The survey counted 7,610 of these jobs in New York for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 10% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.