Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,074
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$11,746
20.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,732
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Virginia — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$57,820
Kept after tax
$46,074
Worth in national money
$45,732
State rank
44
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Virginia. The middle earner gets $57,820. That is 44 of 51 states, and about 9.4% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Virginia, this sits in the middle: 265 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $57,820, tax leaves $46,074, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $45,732 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $60,480, since top earners drag the number up.
- For career/technical education teachers, postsecondary, Virginia sits in the lower band at $57,820, ranking 44 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 9.4%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Career/technical education teachers, postsecondary ranks 265 of 489 occupations in Virginia by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Because Virginia sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for career/technical education teachers, postsecondary — median $57,820 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $46,074 retained, $45,732 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $60,480 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,600 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,820 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,110 |
| This salary | $57,820 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Virginia | $46,074 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,638 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,321 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $54,629 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,225 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $57,820 as a midpoint for Virginia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $41,600 and the ninetieth is $83,110 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Virginia's $46,074, worked from $57,820. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 265 of 489.
- One number stands for prices across all of Virginia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $45,732, the adjusted value of that $57,820 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 265 of 489 in the state.
- The Virginia median of $57,820 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $41,600 to $83,110. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Virginia take-home of $46,074, on $57,820 for work ranking 265 of 489 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 265 of 489 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Virginia, so $45,732 — the adjusted value of that $57,820 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 265 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $60,480, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $41,600 at the tenth percentile, $83,110 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $45,732 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Virginia's own levy, $46,074 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Virginia is $60,480. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($41,600 to $83,110) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Virginia rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $45,732 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $46,074 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Virginia income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.