How Much Do Secondary Special Ed Teachers Make in 2021 (including Starting Salary)

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Annual Salary, Salary Range, and Highest Paying States and Industries

Secondary School Special Ed Teachers

Secondary School Special Ed Teachers teach secondary school subjects to educationally and physically handicapped students. Includes teachers who specialize and work with audibly and visually handicapped students and those who teach basic academic and life processes skills to the mentally impaired.

Salary
$66490
Becoming One
Hard
Education
Bachelor's degree
Job Satisfaction
Job Growth

Personality
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Table of contents
  1. Average salary
  2. Starting salary
  3. Salary rank
  4. Salary range
  5. Highest paying states
  6. Highest paying industries

Average salary

Annual salary
$66490 per year

Starting salary

Entry-level annual salary
$41,270 to $49,940 per year

Entry-level Secondary School Special Education Teachers with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $41,270 to $49,940 per year. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.

Salary rank

Salary rank
B

We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Secondary School Special Education Teachers to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compared the salary of all careers then we gave them a rank of A, B, C, or D depending on where their average salary sit in comparison to other careers.

Salary range

Level Hourly Annual
Highest (Top 10%) $* $101,050
Senior (Top 25%) $* $80,210
Middle (Mid 50%) $* $62,320
Junior (Bottom 25%) $* $49,940
No experience (Bottom 10%) $* $41,270

Highest paying states

State Hourly Annual
NY $* $84,370
DC $* $82,440
MD $* $82,280
CA $* $82,250
OR $* $82,250
RI $* $80,490
MA $* $79,510
CT $* $78,610
NJ $* $78,090
AK $* $77,060

* Secondary School Special Education Teachers are generally paid on an annual basis not hourly.

Another simple way to increase your salary as a Secondary School Special Education Teacher is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like NY doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at NY might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.

According to BLS, the highest paid Secondary Special Ed Teachers are in the states of NY, DC, MD, CA and OR.

Highest paying industries

Salary by industry Annual Hourly
Elementary and Secondary Schools $66790 $*
State Government $66750 $*
Other Residential Care Facilities $63810 $*
Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals $62290 $*
Local Government $59090 $*
Individual and Family Services $57240 $*
Educational Support Services $52360 $*
Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Facilities $50910 $*

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