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Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School · SOC 25-2023

Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School Salary in the Seattle Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area

Figures describe the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Seattle city limits.

Median annual wage$103,490

BLS publishes only annual wages for this occupation (workers typically work fewer than 2,080 hours per year).

Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area earned a median of $103,490 per year as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $78,720 at the 10th percentile to $132,960 at the 90th. BLS estimates 300 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School in the Seattle metro area earn more than $103,490 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $84,040 and $124,860.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$78,720$84,040$103,490$124,860$132,960

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Seattle metro areathis metro area
    $103,490
  • Washingtonstate (WA)
    $103,290
  • United Statesnational
    $65,030

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is about the same vs Washington overall and +59% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$46,980$67,307$87,633$107,960Greensboro-High Point, NC — $46,980Toledo, OH — $46,990Oklahoma City, OK — $49,300Mobile, AL — $49,650New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $49,720Raleigh-Cary, NC — $50,420Winston-Salem, NC — $50,680Baton Rouge, LA — $53,180Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $55,280Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $56,830Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $57,100Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $57,650Jackson, MS — $57,940Colorado Springs, CO — $58,000Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $58,160Lubbock, TX — $58,210Longview, TX — $59,100Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $59,280Amarillo, TX — $59,580Huntsville, AL — $59,580Texarkana, TX-AR — $59,910Erie, PA — $60,210Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $60,650Waco, TX — $60,690College Station-Bryan, TX — $60,730Sherman-Denison, TX — $60,860Lincoln, NE — $60,870Tyler, TX — $61,160Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $61,710Corpus Christi, TX — $62,040Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $62,210Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $62,230San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $62,310McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $62,320Killeen-Temple, TX — $62,660El Paso, TX — $63,770Richmond, VA — $63,990Green Bay, WI — $64,660Chattanooga, TN-GA — $65,190Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $65,310Madison, WI — $66,050Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $67,290Omaha, NE-IA — $69,080Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $69,210Binghamton, NY — $72,750Birmingham, AL — $73,790Rochester, NY — $76,020Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $76,340Jacksonville, FL — $76,410Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $77,320Syracuse, NY — $77,470Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $78,040Boulder, CO — $78,410Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $78,510Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $79,020Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $79,320Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $79,690Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $80,860Utica-Rome, NY — $82,900Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $83,050Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $86,890St. Louis, MO-IL — $87,860Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $88,000Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $94,870Cleveland, OH — $94,990Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $96,880Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $96,950Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $97,240Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $98,430New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $98,950Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $99,040Yakima, WA — $99,550Pittsburgh, PA — $100,030Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA — $100,450Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $103,490Columbus, OH — $103,580Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $105,240Kennewick-Richland, WA — $107,620Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $107,960

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Seattle metro area has the 5th-highest published median for this occupation among the 79 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Washington

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for career/technical education teachers, middle school, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Seattle metro areathis page
    $103,490
  • Spokane metro area
    $107,960
  • Kennewick metro area
    $107,620
  • Wenatchee metro area
    $100,450
  • Yakima metro area
    $99,550
  • Olympia metro area
    $98,430

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary$53,950Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education$102,920Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education$46,380Self-Enrichment Teachers$48,530Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$102,670Substitute Teachers, Short-Term$60,070

Highest-paying metro areas for career/technical education teachers, middle schools · Highest-paying occupations in Seattle Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.