Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School

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Job Score (higher is better):

We rate jobs using four factors. These are:

- Chance of being automated
- Job growth
- Wages
- Volume of available positions

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Risk & user votes

Calculated automation risk

14% (Minimal Risk)

Minimal Risk (0-20%): This occupation appears difficult to replace end-to-end with current or near-future automation, including AI software and robotics. Roles in this range usually depend on human judgement, creativity, care, leadership, specialist expertise, or adapting to messy real-world situations. AI and machines may still change parts of the work, but the occupation is likely to remain a distinct human role.

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Human strengths important in this job

These are human abilities and work contexts that are important in this occupation. They may help explain why parts of the role are harder to replace end-to-end, but they are not the only inputs into the automation score.

Thinking creatively

Very important
Why this matters
Coming up with original ideas and designs—creating new concepts, products, systems, or artistic work. This kind of open-ended invention and taste-based judgment is harder to automate end-to-end than routine, rule-based tasks.
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Decision-making and problem solving

Very important
Why this matters
Analyze information, weigh tradeoffs, and choose the best solution—especially when situations are ambiguous, high-stakes, or have real-world consequences.
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Education and training expertise

Very important
Why this matters
Designing and delivering instruction—adapting lessons to different learners and measuring whether training actually works.
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Assisting and caring for others

Quite important
Why this matters
Provide hands-on help, emotional support, or personal care to people—work that depends on empathy, trust, and responding to individual needs in the moment.
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Social perceptiveness

Quite important
Why this matters
Noticing others’ emotions and reactions in the moment and adjusting what you say or do based on why they’re responding that way.
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Coordinating others’ work

Quite important
Why this matters
Bringing people together, assigning tasks, and keeping a group aligned so work gets done.
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Developing objectives and strategies

Quite important
Why this matters
Sets long-term goals and chooses strategies and actions to reach them, weighing tradeoffs and adapting plans as conditions change.
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Communicating with people outside the organization

Quite important
Why this matters
Represents the organization to customers, the public, or government—handling questions, concerns, and relationship-building through conversations, writing, calls, or email.
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Active learning

Quite important
Why this matters
Keeps learning from new information and applying it to make better decisions now and in the future, especially when situations change.
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What users think

Based on 37 votes

43% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted they are unsure if this occupation will be automated. However, employees may be able to find reassurance in the automated risk level we have generated, which shows 14% chance of automation.

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What is the likelihood that Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?

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Pay & outlook

Wages

Moderately paid relative to other professions

In 2024, the median annual wage for Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School was $63,620 ($31 per hour).

The median annual wage for Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School was 28.5% higher than the national median annual wage, which stood at $49,500.

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Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Growth

Very slow growth relative to other professions.

The number of 'Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School' job openings is expected to decline 2.0% by 2034

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Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2023 and 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2025.

Volume

Lower range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2024 there were 14,200 people employed as 'Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School' within the United States.

This represents around < 0.001% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 10 thousand people are employed as 'Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School'.

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What people are saying (4)

Javier Villamil (Low)
16 Jun 2020 16:55
I consider that being a teacher is much more than transmitting content or information, education is a social process that involves empathy, curiosity, solidarity, among other values ​​and emotions, things that cannot be given in front of a screen but in human interaction . It is useless to learn to dominate the world around us if we are not able to act humanely and ethically, not only between ourselves but with the planet and animals, otherwise we will continue to build increasingly efficient death factories. Of course, technology is here to stay and the challenge is involved in educational processes to have better results, but the guide that a teacher assumes is irreplaceable for an AI. Cheers
Guillermo Garza (Highly likely)
15 May 2020 17:17
Watch whats going on in Africa, teachers are a must in the traditional teaching methods but if you apply the question to "learning" out of the traditional scope, robots will be a better facilitator of knowledge because the can "coach" individually while a professor tries a group approach
Claire
02 Apr 2020 15:34
AI will replace loads of jobs but creating new jobs at the same time https://vanna.com/articles/read/jobs-that-are-likely-to-be-obsolete-in-2022
Liam (No chance)
12 Nov 2019 23:41
Robots can't teach
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Job description

Teach occupational, vocational, career, or technical subjects to students at the middle, intermediate, or junior high school level.

O*NET-SOC code: 25-2023.00