Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,662
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$20,718
26.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,063
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$78,380
Kept after tax
$57,662
Worth in national money
$55,063
State rank
12
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Oregon's middle earner gets $78,380, putting the state 12 of 49 — about 18.27% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 163 among 489 occupations Oregon publishes pay for.
- Oregon is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $78,380 the take-home is $57,662; in national-average money that behaves like $55,063. The average lands at $75,840, below the middle of the range.
- For career/technical education teachers, secondary school, Oregon sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $78,380, ranking 12 of 49 and running about 18.27% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 163 of 489 in Oregon 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.
- Take-home for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Oregon, on $78,380, is $57,662; deflated by the state's price level, $55,063. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $75,840 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 | $49,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $96,870 |
| This salary | $78,380 |
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 Oregon | $57,662 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,970 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$10,767 |
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 | $69,413 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$14,500 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Oregon earn less than $78,380. The published range is $49,720 up to $96,870, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $57,662 take-home in Oregon comes from $78,380. 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 163 of 489.
- Two cautions on $55,063, the adjusted value of that $78,380 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Oregon. 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 163 of 489 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Oregon the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $49,720 to $96,870. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $57,662, from $78,380, assumes a single Oregon 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 163 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 12 of 49 for it.
- This $55,063 adjusted figure, worked from $78,380, 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 163 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 163 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $75,840 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $49,720 at the tenth percentile, $96,870 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 $55,063 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 Oregon's own levy, $57,662 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 Oregon is $75,840. 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 ($49,720 to $96,870) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Oregon rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $55,063 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 $57,662 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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.