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

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Texas is $64,610 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 Texas is $66,370 a year. The median is $64,610.

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 Texas, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, secondary school earn under $53,150 a year and a quarter earn under $61,360.

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 Texas spans from $53,150 for the bottom 10% to $77,070 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $61,360 and $73,430 a year, with the overall median at $64,610.

On the median wage of $64,610, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $54,094 a year, or roughly $4,508 a month.

That is after federal and FICA tax, an effective rate of 16.3%.

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

On the median annual salary of $64,610, estimated take-home pay is roughly $4,508 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 $2,081 net.

No. The median in Texas is 2.5% below the national median of $66,270.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Texas sit at 97.1 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.82 times the median household income of $78,476. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Texas run at 97.1 against a national average of 100, with rents at 96.5, so $64,610 here buys about what $66,569 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $77,070 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $53,150.

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

The survey counted 32,250 of these jobs in Texas for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 220% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.