Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
Amherst Town-Northampton, MA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 310.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Amherst Town earn more.
$80,750 in Amherst Town buys what $80,600 buys across the country as a whole.
Amherst Town's regional price parity is 100.2 — almost exactly the national average — the nominal figure is close to the real one here, which is not true of most large metros. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Massachusetts
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Amherst Town |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnstable Town | $99,600 | $101,300 | 98.4 | +25.7% |
| Boston | $94,170 | $87,000 | 108.3 | +8.0% |
| Worcester | $82,380 | $80,400 | 102.5 | −0.3% |
| Amherst Town This page | $80,750 | $80,600 | 100.2 | — |
| Springfield | $79,920 | $83,200 | 96.1 | +3.3% |
| Pittsfield | $77,780 | $81,800 | 95.1 | +1.5% |
Price parity and difference against Amherst Town are in the full table on wider screens.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Employment
- 310 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 25-2022, Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education. Mapped to our taxonomy as middle-school-teachers-except-special-and-career-technical-education.
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