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

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Washington is $101,180 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 Washington is $98,310 a year. The median is $101,180.

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 Washington, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, secondary school earn under $69,270 a year and a quarter earn under $79,880.

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 Washington spans from $69,270 for the bottom 10% to $127,890 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $79,880 and $115,570 a year, with the overall median at $101,180.

On the median wage of $101,180, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $80,010 a year, or roughly $6,668 a month.

That is after federal and FICA tax, an effective rate of 20.9%.

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

On the median annual salary of $101,180, estimated take-home pay is roughly $6,668 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 $3,077 net.

Yes. The median in Washington is 52.7% above the national median of $66,270.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Washington sit at 107 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 1.03 times the median household income of $98,141. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Washington run at 107 against a national average of 100, with rents at 126, so $101,180 here buys about what $94,549 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $127,890 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $69,270.

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

The survey counted 3,460 of these jobs in Washington for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 36% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.