Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,415
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$17,165
22.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,981
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Virginia — 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
$75,580
Kept after tax
$58,415
Worth in national money
$57,981
State rank
20
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Virginia pays this job around $75,580 at the midpoint, 20 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Virginia, this sits in the middle: 157 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $75,580, tax leaves $58,415, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $57,981 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $75,850, since top earners drag the number up.
- For career/technical education teachers, secondary school the Virginia median is $75,580, ranking 20 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Career/technical education teachers, secondary school ranks 157 of 489 occupations in Virginia by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Because Virginia sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for career/technical education teachers, secondary school — median $75,580 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $58,415 retained, $57,981 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $75,850 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 | $52,710 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,580 |
| Top tenth earn over | $101,750 |
| This salary | $75,580 |
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 Virginia | $58,415 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $62,001 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,822 |
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 | $70,484 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,042 |
| 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 Virginia earn less than $75,580. The published range is $52,710 up to $101,750, 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 Virginia's $58,415, worked from $75,580. 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 157 of 489.
- Two cautions on $57,981, the adjusted value of that $75,580 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Virginia. 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 157 of 489 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Virginia the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $52,710 to $101,750. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Virginia take-home of $58,415, on $75,580 for work ranking 157 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 157 of 489 in the state.
- This $57,981 adjusted figure, worked from $75,580, 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 157 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 157 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $52,710 at the tenth percentile, $101,750 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Virginia run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $57,981 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Virginia then takes its own share, leaving $58,415.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($52,710 to $101,750) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Virginia rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $57,981 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 $58,415 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Virginia 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.