Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School in Arizona
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,612
after federal, FICA and Arizona tax
Tax takes
$11,368
18.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,048
Arizona costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arizona — 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
$62,980
Kept after tax
$51,612
Worth in national money
$51,048
State rank
30
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Arizona sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $62,980, ranking 30 of 49 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 491 occupations Arizona reports figures for, this is number 196.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $62,980, tax leaves $51,612, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $51,048 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $69,120, since top earners drag the number up.
- Arizona occupies the middle band for career/technical education teachers, secondary school: a median of $62,980, ranking 30 of 49. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- In Arizona's occupational distribution, career/technical education teachers, secondary school sits at 196 of 491 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Because Arizona sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for career/technical education teachers, secondary school — median $62,980 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $51,612 retained, $51,048 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $69,120 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,480 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,980 |
| Top tenth earn over | $100,480 |
| This salary | $62,980 |
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 Arizona | $51,612 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,784 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,271 |
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 | $61,521 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,955 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Arizona earn less than $62,980. The published range is $46,480 up to $100,480, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $51,612 take-home in Arizona comes from $62,980. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 196 of 491.
- Two cautions on $51,048, the adjusted value of that $62,980 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Arizona. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 196 of 491 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Arizona the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $46,480 to $100,480. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $51,612, from $62,980, assumes a single Arizona filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 196 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 30 of 49 for it.
- This $51,048 adjusted figure, worked from $62,980, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 196 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 196 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $69,120, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $46,480 at the bottom tenth to $100,480 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $51,048 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 Arizona's own levy, $51,612 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 Arizona is $69,120. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($46,480) and the ninetieth ($100,480) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Arizona's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $51,048 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 $51,612 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arizona 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.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.