Secondary School Vocation Teachers
Training and Education
| Fast Facts* | |
|---|---|
| Recommended Degree Level | Bachelor |
| Salary, Typical | $55,160 |
| Salary Range | |
| Number of Jobs, 2012 | 87,780 |
| Annual Job Growth Rate | 2.8% |
| Job Openings per Year (est.) | 2,520 |
People with a bachelor's or higher degree, plus work experience have an easier time finding a job in this career. The percentage of workers with at least a 4 year degree or higher is 96%. Approximately 4% of employees started in college but were able to get a job without a degree. Secondary school vocation teachers with a high school diploma but no further education represent 1% of the total.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
Approximately 8% of employees work part time.
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 Anniston - Oxford $51,560 50 0.12% AL Birmingham - Hoover $58,620 180 0.04% AL Decatur $55,840 60 0.11% AL Florence - Muscle Shoals $54,450 N/A N/A AL Huntsville $54,440 40 0.02% AL Montgomery $55,630 40 0.02% AR Fayetteville - Springdale - Rogers $54,290 150 0.07% AR Fort Smith $47,480 110 0.09% AR Hot Springs $44,180 40 0.11% AR Jonesboro $49,520 70 0.14% AR Little Rock - North Little Rock - Conway $56,300 250 0.07% AR Pine Bluff $50,240 40 0.13% AZ Flagstaff $42,920 N/A N/A AZ Lake Havasu City $ Kingman $40,170 40 0.09% AZ Phoenix - Mesa - Glendale $47,940 660 0.04% AZ Tucson $47,030 130 0.04% AZ Yuma $48,800 50 0.09% CA Bakersfield - Delano $72,790 80 0.03% CA Fresno $37,890 N/A N/A CA Los Angeles - Long Beach - Glendale (Metro Area) $77,150 910 0.02% CA Modesto $72,100 N/A N/A CA Oxnard - Thousand Oaks - Ventura $72,250 120 0.04% CA Riverside - San Bernardino - Ontario $70,840 450 0.04% CA Sacramento - Arden - Arcade - Roseville $67,150 180 0.02% CA Salinas $53,900 N/A N/A CA San Diego - Carlsbad - San Marcos $68,500 N/A N/A CA San Francisco - San Mateo - Redwood City (Metro Area) $72,870 50 0.00% CA San Jose - Sunnyvale - Santa Clara $78,530 N/A N/A CA Santa Ana - Anaheim - Irvine (Metro Area) $55,910 N/A N/A CA Santa Barbara - Santa Maria - Goleta $70,220 N/A N/A CA Santa Rosa - Petaluma $57,070 50 0.03% CA Stockton $79,780 50 0.03% CA Vallejo - Fairfield $67,540 N/A N/A CA Visalia - Porterville $75,350 N/A N/A CO Colorado Springs $49,150 50 0.02% CO Denver - Aurora - Broomfield $60,680 260 0.02% CO Greeley $46,770 70 0.09% CT Bridgeport - Stamford - Norwalk $76,140 320 0.08% CT Danbury $72,310 140 0.21% CT Hartford - West Hartford - East Hartford $74,980 660 0.12% CT New Haven $71,650 420 0.15% CT Norwich - New London $76,530 80 0.06% CT Waterbury $78,750 270 0.43% DC Washington - Arlington - Alexandria (Metro Area) $72,680 1,030 0.04% DE Wilmington (Metro Area) $65,210 N/A N/A FL Fort Lauderdale - Pompano Beach - Deerfield Beach (Metro Area) $66,490 320 0.04% FL Gainesville $29,550 110 0.09% FL Jacksonville $54,510 280 0.05% FL Pensacola - Ferry Pass - Brent $55,950 150 0.10% FL Tallahassee $42,550 100 0.07% GA Albany $54,960 70 0.11% GA Athens - Clarke County $57,230 70 0.10% GA Atlanta - Sandy Springs - Marietta $55,480 1,190 0.05% GA Augusta - Richmond County $51,500 150 0.08% GA Columbus $53,500 N/A N/A GA Dalton $53,010 80 0.14% GA Macon $52,380 30 0.04% IA Cedar Rapids $47,560 120 0.08% IA Davenport - Moline - Rock Island $52,750 70 0.04% IA Des Moines - West Des Moines $47,440 50 0.02% IA Sioux City $41,530 60 0.09% IA Waterloo - Cedar Falls $44,480 N/A N/A ID Boise City - Nampa $38,300 N/A N/A ID Pocatello $45,420 30 0.10% IL Chicago - Joliet - Naperville (Metro Area) $63,970 490 0.01% IL Lake County - Kenosha County (Metro Area) $73,730 60 0.02% IL Peoria $53,630 100 0.06% IL Rockford $53,310 70 0.05% IL Springfield $49,890 40 0.04% IN Evansville $66,270 80 0.05% IN Fort Wayne $56,020 N/A N/A IN Gary (Metro Area) $56,780 150 0.06% IN Indianapolis - Carmel $58,960 300 0.03% IN Lafayette $56,370 40 0.05% IN Terre Haute $45,130 50 0.07% KS Manhattan $44,250 50 0.09% KS Topeka $47,140 80 0.07% KS Wichita $47,930 130 0.05% KY Louisville - Jefferson County $61,740 210 0.04% LA Baton Rouge $56,020 190 0.05% LA Lake Charles $54,810 60 0.07% LA Monroe $60,250 50 0.07% LA Shreveport - Bossier City N/A 80 0.04% MA Barnstable Town $77,180 80 0.09% MA Boston - Cambridge - Quincy (Metro Area) $70,490 870 0.05% MA Brockton - Bridgewater - Easton (Metro Area) $60,290 140 0.16% MA Framingham (Metro Area) $72,170 240 0.16% MA Haverhill - North Andover - Amesbury (Metro Area) $71,010 170 0.22% MA Leominster - Fitchburg - Gardner $61,080 N/A N/A MA Lowell - Billerica - Chelmsford (Metro Area) $77,020 190 0.17% MA Springfield $60,980 440 0.15% MA Taunton - Norton - Raynham (Metro Area) $68,480 50 0.12% MA Worcester $71,060 270 0.11% MD Baltimore - Towson $59,160 530 0.04% MD Hagerstown - Martinsburg $59,210 90 0.09% ME Portland - South Portland - Biddeford $54,080 30 0.02% MI Ann Arbor $63,910 N/A N/A MI Grand Rapids - Wyoming $68,500 150 0.04% MI Holland - Grand Haven $60,810 50 0.04% MI Jackson $61,940 40 0.07% MI Kalamazoo - Portage $65,810 80 0.06% MI Lansing - East Lansing $62,150 50 0.02% MI Niles - Benton Harbor $51,590 30 0.06% MI Warren - Troy - Farmington Hills (Metro Area) $65,850 340 0.03% MN Duluth $51,260 40 0.03% MN Minneapolis - St. Paul - Bloomington $57,030 340 0.02% MO Jefferson City $43,530 60 0.08% MO Joplin $46,180 40 0.05% MO Kansas City $54,200 N/A N/A MO Springfield $42,270 30 0.02% MO St. Joseph $41,170 40 0.08% MO St. Louis $50,330 410 0.03% MS Gulfport - Biloxi $45,000 60 0.06% MS Jackson $45,060 80 0.03% MS Pascagoula $44,520 40 0.07% MT Billings $57,990 40 0.05% NC Asheville $46,330 380 0.22% NC Charlotte - Gastonia - Rock Hill $47,870 1,090 0.13% NC Durham - Chapel Hill $47,210 150 0.05% NC Fayetteville $42,970 250 0.20% NC Greensboro - High Point $50,180 330 0.10% NC Hickory - Lenoir - Morganton $44,070 200 0.14% NC Raleigh - Cary $51,160 690 0.13% NC Rocky Mount $44,370 100 0.18% NC Wilmington $48,110 170 0.13% NC Winston - Salem $44,810 260 0.13% ND Bismarck $46,440 60 0.09% ND Fargo $51,830 110 0.08% ND Grand Forks $50,010 50 0.11% NE Lincoln $55,750 50 0.03% NE Omaha - Council Bluffs $49,440 120 0.03% NH Nashua (Metro Area) $66,240 40 0.03% NJ Atlantic City - Hammonton $62,970 130 0.09% NJ Camden (Metro Area) $66,160 N/A N/A NJ Edison - New Brunswick (Metro Area) $70,640 300 0.03% NJ Newark - Union (Metro Area) $60,250 470 0.05% NJ Vineland - Millville - Bridgeton $62,630 120 0.20% NM Albuquerque $65,720 40 0.01% NV Reno - Sparks $49,970 N/A N/A NY Albany - Schenectady - Troy $57,560 480 0.11% NY Binghamton $59,880 110 0.11% NY Buffalo - Niagara Falls $57,130 630 0.12% NY Glens Falls $56,330 150 0.28% NY Ithaca $55,280 40 0.08% NY Kingston $68,920 60 0.10% NY Nassau - Suffolk (Metro Area) $89,640 1,130 0.09% NY New York - White Plains - Wayne (Metro Area) $82,900 1,290 0.03% NY Poughkeepsie - Newburgh - Middletown $74,320 190 0.08% NY Rochester $65,320 350 0.07% NY Syracuse $55,810 260 0.09% NY Utica - Rome $53,700 160 0.13% OH Akron $66,840 600 0.19% OH Canton - Massillon $61,560 510 0.31% OH Cincinnati - Middletown $62,990 700 0.07% OH Cleveland - Elyria - Mentor $68,430 960 0.10% OH Columbus $69,750 980 0.11% OH Dayton $69,370 470 0.13% OH Mansfield $57,780 110 0.22% OH Sandusky $68,640 150 0.41% OH Springfield $58,070 70 0.14% OH Toledo $52,060 360 0.12% OH Youngstown - Warren - Boardman $61,490 340 0.16% OK Oklahoma City $52,720 340 0.06% OK Tulsa $47,060 170 0.04% OR Portland - Vancouver - Hillsboro $64,200 380 0.04% OR Salem $53,070 N/A N/A PA Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton $64,280 N/A N/A PA Harrisburg - Carlisle $61,010 330 0.11% PA Johnstown $64,920 N/A N/A PA Lancaster $58,910 N/A N/A PA Philadelphia (Metro Area) $64,720 920 0.05% PA Pittsburgh $56,940 N/A N/A PA Reading $55,750 230 0.14% PA Scranton - Wilkes - Barre $60,540 N/A N/A PA York - Hanover $60,210 60 0.03% PR San Juan - Caguas - Guaynabo $31,310 770 0.10% RI Providence - Fall River - Warwick $68,330 300 0.06% SC Anderson $52,520 N/A N/A SC Charleston - North Charleston - Summerville $46,960 260 0.09% SC Columbia $47,800 130 0.04% SC Florence $51,110 70 0.09% SC Greenville - Mauldin - Easley $49,570 N/A N/A SC Spartanburg $51,940 N/A N/A SD Sioux Falls $41,890 70 0.05% TN Chattanooga $56,660 220 0.10% TN Jackson $50,040 60 0.11% TN Johnson City $45,230 100 0.12% TN Knoxville $47,140 370 0.11% TN Memphis $52,360 560 0.09% TN Morristown $43,220 120 0.27% TN Nashville - Davidson - Murfreesboro - Franklin $46,780 730 0.10% TX Abilene $53,220 50 0.08% TX Austin - Round Rock - San Marcos $46,960 520 0.06% TX Beaumont - Port Arthur $47,450 120 0.08% TX College Station - Bryan $47,510 80 0.09% TX Corpus Christi $60,690 170 0.09% TX Dallas - Plano - Irving (Metro Area) $51,940 1,560 0.07% TX El Paso $51,940 430 0.16% TX Fort Worth - Arlington (Metro Area) $57,800 600 0.07% TX Houston - Sugar Land - Baytown $54,520 1,650 0.06% TX Killeen - Temple - Fort Hood $50,510 140 0.11% TX Longview $49,360 100 0.11% TX Lubbock $41,580 50 0.04% TX McAllen - Edinburg - Mission $51,810 400 0.17% TX San Angelo $48,480 N/A N/A TX San Antonio - New Braunfels $58,280 780 0.09% TX Sherman - Denison $49,240 70 0.17% TX Texarkana - Texarkana $47,690 90 0.17% TX Waco $51,520 60 0.06% TX Wichita Falls $51,320 50 0.08% UT Provo - Orem $49,820 200 0.11% UT Salt Lake City $51,770 120 0.02% VA Lynchburg $51,050 120 0.13% VA Richmond $55,660 1,130 0.19% VA Roanoke $54,870 130 0.09% VA Virginia Beach - Norfolk - Newport News $60,080 610 0.08% VT Burlington - South Burlington $60,420 100 0.08% WA Bellingham $65,220 60 0.07% WA Kennewick - Pasco - Richland $60,730 120 0.12% WA Longview $61,710 50 0.15% WA Seattle - Bellevue - Everett (Metro Area) $63,860 690 0.05% WA Spokane $63,290 160 0.08% WA Tacoma (Metro Area) $62,460 280 0.11% WA Wenatchee - East Wenatchee $54,340 40 0.10% WA Yakima $60,590 130 0.16% WI Appleton $47,700 40 0.03% WI Eau Claire $51,340 60 0.08% WI Fond du Lac $58,300 40 0.08% WI Green Bay $50,710 N/A N/A WI La Crosse $51,090 N/A N/A WI Madison $51,530 140 0.04% WI Milwaukee - Waukesha - West Allis $56,410 80 0.01% WI Racine $49,630 200 0.27% WI Sheboygan $59,160 40 0.08% WI Wausau $51,090 40 0.06% WV Charleston $48,000 160 0.11% WV Huntington - Ashland $55,030 N/A N/A WV Wheeling $50,150 80 0.13%
Area Job Conditions
Jobs for this occupation are more popular (on a per capita basis) in Mansfield (Ohio), St. Joseph (Missouri), and Hanford (California), and less popular in Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Honolulu (Hawaii), and Santa Ana (California).
Without adjusting for the cost of living, employees get paid the most in Nassau (New York), Visalia (California), and New Haven (Connecticut), and the least in Sioux Falls (South Dakota), Sioux City (Iowa), and Tallahassee (Florida).