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

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Tennessee is $61,700 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 Tennessee is $62,030 a year. The median is $61,700.

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 Tennessee, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, secondary school earn under $49,480 a year and a quarter earn under $52,120.

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 Tennessee spans from $49,480 for the bottom 10% to $77,450 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $52,120 and $65,500 a year, with the overall median at $61,700.

On the median wage of $61,700, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $51,756 a year, or roughly $4,313 a month.

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

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

On the median annual salary of $61,700, estimated take-home pay is roughly $4,313 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 $1,991 net.

No. The median in Tennessee is 6.9% below the national median of $66,270.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Tennessee sit at 91.9 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.89 times the median household income of $69,595. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Tennessee run at 91.9 against a national average of 100, with rents at 79.1, so $61,700 here buys about what $67,160 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $77,450 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $49,480.

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

The survey counted 2,940 of these jobs in Tennessee for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 25% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.