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

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Vermont is $79,220 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 Vermont is $79,560 a year. The median is $79,220.

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 Vermont, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, secondary school earn under $62,090 a year and a quarter earn under $64,640.

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 Vermont spans from $62,090 for the bottom 10% to $99,730 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $64,640 and $96,810 a year, with the overall median at $79,220.

On the median wage of $79,220, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $61,793 a year, or roughly $5,149 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 22%.

Vermont takes $2,768 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $79,220, estimated take-home pay is roughly $5,149 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 $2,377 net.

Yes. The median in Vermont is 19.5% above the national median of $66,270.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Vermont sit at 98 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.98 times the median household income of $81,203. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Vermont run at 98 against a national average of 100, with rents at 86.5, so $79,220 here buys about what $80,871 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $99,730 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $62,090.

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

The survey counted 220 of these jobs in Vermont for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 1% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.