Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,094
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$10,516
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,667
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$64,610
Kept after tax
$54,094
Worth in national money
$55,667
State rank
27
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Texas is 27 of 49 states for this job, with a middle wage of $64,610. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 176 among 493 occupations Texas publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $64,610 the take-home is $54,094, which is worth about $55,667 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $66,370, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas ranks 27 of 49 for career/technical education teachers, secondary school at $64,610. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Position 176 of 493 in Texas 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.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for career/technical education teachers, secondary school on its $64,610 median: $54,094 retained after tax becomes $55,667 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $66,370 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $53,150 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,070 |
| This salary | $64,610 |
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 Texas | $54,094 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $54,094 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,378 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $64,610 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,698 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 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 Texas earn less than $64,610. The published range is $53,150 up to $77,070, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $54,094 take-home in Texas comes from $64,610. 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 176 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $55,667 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 176.
- Reported values are medians; for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $53,150 to $77,070. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $54,094, from $64,610, assumes a single Texas 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 176 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $55,667, worked from $64,610, 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 Texas address, on work sitting at 176 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $53,150 at the tenth percentile, $77,070 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $55,667.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $54,094 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($53,150 to $77,070) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas'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 $55,667 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $54,094 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.