Middle School Special Ed Teachers
Training and Education
| Fast Facts* | |
|---|---|
| Recommended Degree Level | Bachelor |
| Salary, Typical | $55,780 |
| Salary Range | |
| Number of Jobs, 2012 | 96,380 |
| Annual Job Growth Rate | 4.5% |
| Job Openings per Year (est.) | 4,880 |
Expect to need to get a bachelor's degree if you pursue this occupation. 87% of workers have a bachelor's degree. 8 of people working as employees have had some college education, but stopped short of a degree. About 5% of those working as middle school special ed teachers have a high-school diploma, but no further education.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
About 10% of employees work fewer than 40 hours per week.
See typical salaries and ranges for this career below*. Shift click to sort by more than one column -- for example first shift-click on state and then shift-click on salary to find best and worst salaries in each state.
Salaries by City
State City / Region Typical Salary Salary Range Job Count % of All Jobs AL Birmingham - Hoover $53,380 N/A N/A AL Decatur $51,610 40 0.08% AL Montgomery $46,510 N/A N/A AL Tuscaloosa $48,280 50 0.05% AR Fayetteville - Springdale - Rogers $54,210 150 0.07% AR Fort Smith $46,060 120 0.11% AR Jonesboro $42,140 40 0.08% AR Little Rock - North Little Rock - Conway $51,720 260 0.08% AR Pine Bluff $49,520 40 0.12% AZ Phoenix - Mesa - Glendale $44,370 760 0.04% AZ Tucson $41,900 180 0.05% CA Bakersfield - Delano $60,940 N/A N/A CA El Centro $65,800 40 0.09% CA Fresno $50,930 N/A N/A CA Los Angeles - Long Beach - Glendale (Metro Area) $60,700 1,040 0.03% CA Napa $83,900 40 0.07% CA Oakland - Fremont - Hayward (Metro Area) $65,650 250 0.03% CA Redding $58,920 N/A N/A CA Riverside - San Bernardino - Ontario $66,400 920 0.08% CA Sacramento - Arden - Arcade - Roseville $59,270 350 0.04% CA San Diego - Carlsbad - San Marcos $57,030 N/A N/A CA San Francisco - San Mateo - Redwood City (Metro Area) $48,500 420 0.04% CA San Jose - Sunnyvale - Santa Clara $66,020 260 0.03% CA Santa Ana - Anaheim - Irvine (Metro Area) $72,180 360 0.03% CA Santa Cruz - Watsonville $65,820 70 0.09% CA Stockton $79,990 70 0.03% CA Vallejo - Fairfield $69,870 N/A N/A CO Colorado Springs $45,130 200 0.08% CO Denver - Aurora - Broomfield $54,680 850 0.07% CO Fort Collins - Loveland $47,170 80 0.06% CO Greeley $48,060 90 0.11% CT Bridgeport - Stamford - Norwalk $78,070 300 0.07% CT Danbury $76,300 50 0.08% CT Hartford - West Hartford - East Hartford $71,610 380 0.07% CT New Haven $65,580 290 0.11% CT Norwich - New London $69,540 140 0.11% DC Washington - Arlington - Alexandria (Metro Area) $78,600 3,030 0.13% DE Wilmington (Metro Area) $66,680 190 0.06% FL Cape Coral - Fort Myers $53,050 50 0.02% FL Fort Lauderdale - Pompano Beach - Deerfield Beach (Metro Area) $44,620 260 0.04% FL Jacksonville $49,670 280 0.05% FL North Port - Bradenton - Sarasota $45,230 190 0.08% FL Palm Bay - Melbourne - Titusville $44,030 80 0.04% GA Albany $47,300 60 0.10% GA Atlanta - Sandy Springs - Marietta $51,000 2,760 0.12% GA Augusta - Richmond County $48,050 250 0.12% GA Brunswick $54,050 30 0.08% GA Dalton $53,350 100 0.16% GA Hinesville - Fort Stewart $55,190 30 0.20% GA Macon $52,960 50 0.05% GA Rome $40,640 N/A N/A GA Savannah $49,170 50 0.03% GA Valdosta $49,040 N/A N/A IA Cedar Rapids $41,330 50 0.03% IA Davenport - Moline - Rock Island $48,840 140 0.08% IA Des Moines - West Des Moines $43,980 110 0.03% IA Sioux City $46,800 N/A N/A IA Waterloo - Cedar Falls $50,350 N/A N/A IL Bloomington - Normal $54,770 80 0.09% IL Champaign - Urbana $42,730 60 0.06% IL Chicago - Joliet - Naperville (Metro Area) $68,210 3,300 0.09% IL Kankakee - Bradley $45,890 80 0.21% IL Lake County - Kenosha County (Metro Area) $61,340 590 0.16% IL Peoria $53,950 180 0.10% IL Rockford $66,520 210 0.15% IL Springfield $45,820 110 0.11% IN Bloomington $48,680 90 0.12% IN Evansville $49,720 80 0.04% IN Fort Wayne $50,690 N/A N/A IN Gary (Metro Area) $49,750 120 0.04% IN Indianapolis - Carmel $55,170 420 0.05% IN Kokomo $43,330 40 0.09% IN Michigan City - La Porte $49,860 30 0.09% IN Muncie $48,450 50 0.11% IN South Bend - Mishawaka $57,340 40 0.03% IN Terre Haute $45,950 50 0.08% KS Topeka $57,840 90 0.09% KS Wichita $54,660 140 0.05% KY Elizabethtown $46,050 60 0.12% KY Lexington - Fayette $49,820 170 0.07% KY Louisville - Jefferson County $52,860 460 0.08% LA Baton Rouge $48,920 260 0.07% LA Monroe $51,040 80 0.11% LA Shreveport - Bossier City $44,890 90 0.05% MA Barnstable Town $63,790 100 0.11% MA Boston - Cambridge - Quincy (Metro Area) $59,790 1,720 0.10% MA Brockton - Bridgewater - Easton (Metro Area) $64,300 140 0.16% MA Framingham (Metro Area) $47,790 330 0.21% MA Haverhill - North Andover - Amesbury (Metro Area) $54,180 170 0.22% MA Lawrence - Methuen - Salem (Metro Area) $63,330 70 0.11% MA Leominster - Fitchburg - Gardner $67,890 120 0.25% MA Lowell - Billerica - Chelmsford (Metro Area) $59,950 170 0.15% MA New Bedford $80,570 70 0.12% MA Springfield $56,830 420 0.15% MA Taunton - Norton - Raynham (Metro Area) $55,420 70 0.17% MA Worcester $66,400 400 0.16% MD Baltimore - Towson $63,990 2,360 0.19% MD Bethesda - Rockville - Frederick (Metro Area) $62,750 1,260 0.22% MD Hagerstown - Martinsburg $44,100 130 0.13% MD Salisbury $67,130 60 0.12% ME Bangor $52,310 60 0.09% ME Lewiston - Auburn $48,290 60 0.12% ME Portland - South Portland - Biddeford $51,090 130 0.07% MI Ann Arbor $62,950 50 0.02% MI Battle Creek $52,580 30 0.06% MI Detroit - Livonia - Dearborn (Metro Area) $50,850 180 0.03% MI Flint $56,800 110 0.09% MI Grand Rapids - Wyoming $57,400 150 0.04% MI Holland - Grand Haven $58,530 100 0.09% MI Kalamazoo - Portage $54,290 60 0.04% MI Lansing - East Lansing $64,120 70 0.03% MI Saginaw - Saginaw Township North $63,280 N/A N/A MI Warren - Troy - Farmington Hills (Metro Area) $63,110 450 0.04% MN Duluth $49,120 130 0.11% MN Minneapolis - St. Paul - Bloomington $67,590 1,310 0.07% MN St. Cloud $56,940 N/A N/A MO Joplin $46,910 40 0.06% MO Kansas City $45,730 410 0.04% MO Springfield $43,970 60 0.03% MO St. Joseph $40,340 30 0.07% MO St. Louis $57,990 760 0.06% MS Gulfport - Biloxi $49,970 50 0.05% MS Jackson $43,500 80 0.03% NC Asheville $44,660 110 0.06% NC Burlington $41,280 80 0.15% NC Charlotte - Gastonia - Rock Hill $47,110 730 0.09% NC Durham - Chapel Hill $40,870 200 0.08% NC Fayetteville $38,190 N/A N/A NC Greensboro - High Point $42,100 450 0.13% NC Hickory - Lenoir - Morganton $39,720 190 0.14% NC Raleigh - Cary $46,650 460 0.09% NC Rocky Mount $42,090 N/A N/A NC Wilmington $40,180 110 0.08% NC Winston - Salem $40,340 170 0.08% NE Lincoln $51,660 130 0.08% NE Omaha - Council Bluffs $49,590 270 0.06% NH Nashua (Metro Area) $55,340 140 0.11% NH Portsmouth $54,960 50 0.09% NH Rochester - Dover $47,320 50 0.10% NJ Atlantic City - Hammonton $59,340 260 0.19% NJ Camden (Metro Area) $59,660 790 0.16% NJ Edison - New Brunswick (Metro Area) $61,210 1,340 0.14% NJ Newark - Union (Metro Area) $63,940 940 0.10% NJ Ocean City $71,230 70 0.18% NJ Trenton - Ewing $75,630 180 0.08% NJ Vineland - Millville - Bridgeton $60,060 80 0.14% NM Albuquerque $44,360 380 0.10% NM Farmington $45,860 50 0.10% NM Las Cruces $77,920 160 0.24% NM Santa Fe $44,700 60 0.11% NY Albany - Schenectady - Troy $56,950 420 0.10% NY Binghamton $54,350 120 0.12% NY Buffalo - Niagara Falls $57,520 500 0.09% NY Glens Falls $56,040 50 0.10% NY Kingston $78,210 130 0.23% NY Nassau - Suffolk (Metro Area) $91,080 1,550 0.13% NY New York - White Plains - Wayne (Metro Area) $71,680 6,940 0.13% NY Poughkeepsie - Newburgh - Middletown $76,040 450 0.19% NY Rochester $60,360 630 0.13% NY Syracuse $68,600 260 0.09% NY Utica - Rome $56,900 150 0.12% OH Akron $54,110 N/A N/A OH Canton - Massillon $48,570 140 0.09% OH Cincinnati - Middletown $59,400 820 0.08% OH Cleveland - Elyria - Mentor $67,620 790 0.08% OH Columbus $59,990 820 0.09% OH Dayton $54,750 500 0.13% OH Lima $50,960 80 0.17% OH Mansfield $53,310 40 0.07% OH Toledo $53,640 360 0.12% OH Youngstown - Warren - Boardman $54,050 250 0.12% OK Oklahoma City $40,480 370 0.06% OK Tulsa $45,750 240 0.06% OR Bend $64,460 70 0.12% OR Eugene - Springfield $53,860 70 0.05% OR Medford $55,860 30 0.05% OR Portland - Vancouver - Hillsboro $58,120 240 0.02% OR Salem $58,160 70 0.05% PA Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton $65,480 220 0.06% PA Erie $53,620 N/A N/A PA Harrisburg - Carlisle $54,420 140 0.05% PA Johnstown $61,900 60 0.10% PA Lancaster $59,140 180 0.08% PA Philadelphia (Metro Area) $65,060 1,420 0.08% PA Pittsburgh $55,210 610 0.05% PA Reading $56,450 150 0.09% PA Scranton - Wilkes - Barre $61,210 80 0.03% PA Williamsport $59,320 40 0.07% PA York - Hanover $57,440 N/A N/A RI Providence - Fall River - Warwick $67,260 500 0.09% SC Anderson $45,080 60 0.10% SC Charleston - North Charleston - Summerville $48,980 170 0.06% SC Columbia $50,370 280 0.08% SC Florence $53,290 110 0.14% SC Greenville - Mauldin - Easley $46,510 N/A N/A SC Spartanburg $49,440 60 0.05% SD Sioux Falls $40,210 80 0.06% TN Chattanooga $52,850 230 0.10% TN Kingsport - Bristol - Bristol $48,830 60 0.05% TN Knoxville $46,250 150 0.05% TN Memphis $56,480 100 0.02% TN Morristown $42,490 40 0.08% TN Nashville - Davidson - Murfreesboro - Franklin $45,260 120 0.02% TX Austin - Round Rock - San Marcos $45,730 550 0.07% TX Beaumont - Port Arthur $44,310 40 0.03% TX College Station - Bryan $44,730 50 0.05% TX Corpus Christi $62,050 140 0.08% TX Dallas - Plano - Irving (Metro Area) $49,290 1,220 0.06% TX El Paso $47,620 150 0.05% TX Fort Worth - Arlington (Metro Area) $52,450 320 0.04% TX Houston - Sugar Land - Baytown $51,330 920 0.04% TX Killeen - Temple - Fort Hood $46,490 90 0.07% TX Longview $44,400 50 0.05% TX Lubbock $44,730 30 0.03% TX McAllen - Edinburg - Mission $48,560 120 0.05% TX San Antonio - New Braunfels $60,260 540 0.06% TX Waco $43,940 40 0.04% UT Logan $41,740 50 0.10% UT Ogden - Clearfield $42,790 60 0.03% UT Salt Lake City $54,820 190 0.03% UT St. George $28,560 180 0.39% VA Blacksburg - Christiansburg - Radford $57,020 50 0.09% VA Charlottesville $52,810 80 0.08% VA Lynchburg $44,550 80 0.08% VA Richmond $50,780 690 0.12% VA Roanoke $53,290 120 0.08% VA Virginia Beach - Norfolk - Newport News $59,040 630 0.09% VA Winchester $55,270 60 0.12% VT Burlington - South Burlington $58,280 90 0.08% WA Bellingham $60,660 40 0.05% WA Bremerton - Silverdale $63,000 40 0.05% WA Kennewick - Pasco - Richland $55,730 60 0.06% WA Olympia $57,030 40 0.05% WA Seattle - Bellevue - Everett (Metro Area) $59,150 410 0.03% WA Spokane $56,560 60 0.03% WA Tacoma (Metro Area) $61,270 190 0.07% WA Yakima $62,340 90 0.11% WI Appleton $51,480 40 0.04% WI Eau Claire $54,030 N/A N/A WI Green Bay $56,020 180 0.11% WI Janesville $52,800 90 0.15% WI La Crosse $48,950 50 0.07% WI Madison $50,340 80 0.02% WI Milwaukee - Waukesha - West Allis $58,800 400 0.05% WI Oshkosh - Neenah $23,220 40 0.04% WI Racine $47,390 50 0.07% WI Sheboygan $77,030 N/A N/A WV Charleston $44,430 N/A N/A WV Huntington - Ashland $37,550 190 0.17% WV Wheeling $50,210 N/A N/A
Area Job Conditions
Jobs per capita for workers are most common in Mansfield (Ohio), Leominster (Massachusetts), and Weirton (West Virginia), and least common in Bakersfield (California), Salt Lake City (Utah), and Memphis (Tennessee).
Jobs for employees pay the most in Nassau (New York), Modesto (California), and Danbury (Connecticut), and the least in Sioux Falls (South Dakota), Joplin (Missouri), and Flagstaff (Arizona).