Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School in Maryland
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,572
after federal, FICA and Maryland tax
Tax takes
$17,748
22.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,261
Maryland costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Maryland — 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
$78,320
Kept after tax
$60,572
Worth in national money
$58,261
State rank
13
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Maryland pays this job a middle wage of $78,320, ranking 13 of 49 states and sitting about 18.18% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 169 among 489 occupations Maryland publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $78,320, tax leaves $60,572 — and because Maryland is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $58,261 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $84,450, since top earners drag the number up.
- Maryland's median for career/technical education teachers, secondary school is $78,320, about 18.18% above the national figure and 13 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.
- Position 169 of 489 in Maryland places career/technical education teachers, secondary school in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $60,572 remains from the Maryland median of $78,320 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $58,261 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $84,450 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 | $62,040 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,320 |
| Top tenth earn over | $109,770 |
| This salary | $78,320 |
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 Maryland | $60,572 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,928 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,525 |
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 | $73,549 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,395 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $78,320 as a midpoint for Maryland, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $62,040 and the ninetieth is $109,770 — 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 Maryland's $60,572, worked from $78,320. 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 169 of 489.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $58,261 uses one figure for the whole of Maryland. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 489 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 169.
- The Maryland median of $78,320 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $62,040 to $109,770. 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 Maryland take-home of $60,572, on $78,320 for work ranking 169 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 169 of 489 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $58,261, worked from $78,320, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Maryland address, on work sitting at 169 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $84,450, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $62,040 at the bottom tenth to $109,770 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Maryland costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $58,261 rather than its face figure.
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 Maryland's own levy, $60,572 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 Maryland is $84,450. 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 ($62,040 to $109,770) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Maryland rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Maryland's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $58,261 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 $60,572 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Maryland 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.