Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,906
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$17,854
22.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,985
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$78,760
Kept after tax
$60,906
Worth in national money
$62,985
State rank
11
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Georgia pays this job a middle wage of $78,760, ranking 11 of 49 states and sitting about 18.85% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 492 occupations Georgia reports, this job comes in at 117 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Georgia is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $78,760 the take-home is $60,906; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $62,985 would nationally. The average lands at $77,190, below the middle of the range.
- Georgia's median for career/technical education teachers, secondary school is $78,760, about 18.85% above the national figure and 11 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Career/technical education teachers, secondary school ranks 117 of 492 occupations by median in Georgia, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Post-tax income for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Georgia, on $78,760, is $60,906 — equivalent to $62,985 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $77,190 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $58,570 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,760 |
| Top tenth earn over | $98,450 |
| This salary | $78,760 |
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 Georgia | $60,906 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,238 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,120 |
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 | $74,025 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,309 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Georgia earn less than $78,760. The published range is $58,570 up to $98,450, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Georgia's $60,906, worked from $78,760. 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 117 of 492.
- Two cautions on $62,985, the adjusted value of that $78,760 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Georgia. 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 117 of 492 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Georgia the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $58,570 to $98,450. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Georgia take-home of $60,906, on $78,760 for work ranking 117 of 492 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 117 of 492 in the state.
- This $62,985 adjusted figure, worked from $78,760, 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 117 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 117 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $58,570 and the top tenth $98,450, so most people doing this work in Georgia sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Georgia is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $62,985 in national terms.
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 Georgia's own levy, $60,906 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($58,570 to $98,450) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Georgia rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Georgia's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $62,985 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $60,906 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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.