SOC 25-2058BLS OEWS May 2025H-1B LCAs, last 12 months
Teach academic, social, and life skills to secondary school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities. Excludes “Substitute Teachers, Short-Term” (25-3031).
National median · BLS
$74,260
▲ +6.71%YoY
H-1B sponsor median
$62,000
▲ +6.6%YoY · 231 LCAs
Average salary · BLS
$77,260
Mean annual wage
U.S. employment
163,930
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Pay range for Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
Annual base pay at each percentile. BLS covers all U.S. workers in this occupation; H-1B covers 231 certified Labor Condition Applications filed by sponsoring employers in the last 12 months.
Percentile
All U.S. workers (BLS)
H-1B sponsored
10th — entry pay
$49,800
$47,690
25th
$60,180
$51,889
Median (50th)
$74,260
$62,000
75th
$93,730
$70,150
90th — top pay
$109,100
$81,145
H-1B sponsors pay a median of $62,000 for Special Education Teachers, Secondary School —
16.5% below
the BLS national median of $74,260.
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Projections 2025–2035
Job outlook for Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
BLS projects employment of special education teachers, secondary school to decline 0.2% from 2025 to 2035, while employment across all occupations grows 3.5%.
About 10,400 openings are projected each year, on average, from new jobs and from replacing workers who retire or move to other occupations.
Jobs 2025 → 2035
164,800 → 164,500
-400 jobs
Projected change
-0.2%
All occupations: +3.5%
Openings per year
10,400
Average, 2025–2035
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree
No related experience required
Self-employed
0.4% of workers (2025)
Preparation needed (O*NET Job Zone 4)
Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Employers assign every H-1B filing a Department of Labor prevailing-wage level, from Level I (entry) to Level IV (fully competent). Pay rises steeply with level.
H-1B median$62,000
Change vs prior year+6.6%
After inflation (CPI-U)+3.36%
Wage level
LCAs
Share
P25
Median
P75
Level I
99
42.9%
$48,765
$54,386
$62,637
Level II
30
13%
$53,712
$59,453
$65,956
Level III
12
5.2%
$64,540
$65,226
$70,040
Level IV
16
6.9%
$69,750
$74,689
$79,002
H-1B job titles
Salaries by job title in Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
The 4 most-filed job titles inside SOC 25-2058, from 231 H-1B filings. Seniority words and level numbers are grouped (“Senior Data Engineer II” counts as Data Engineer). Tap a title for its full range, wage levels and the exact titles employers used.
Job title
LCAs
Share
P25
Median
P75
YoY
▶Special Education Teacher
104
45.02%
$54,364
$64,611
$70,772
+10.31%
Special Education Teacher · full pay range (104 LCAs)
Titles are cleaned from the employer's own LCA text (codes and typos removed, nothing invented). Rows need 10+ filings in this SOC.
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Special Education Teachers, Secondary School salaries by state
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Skills & tools
Skills needed for Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
How important each skill and knowledge area is for this job, rated by O*NET on a 1–5 scale from surveys of workers and occupational analysts.
Top skills
Instructing4.1
Learning Strategies4.1
Reading Comprehension4.0
Speaking4.0
Active Listening3.9
Coordination3.9
Monitoring3.9
Service Orientation3.9
Social Perceptiveness3.9
Writing3.9
Top knowledge areas
Education and Training4.8
English Language4.6
Psychology4.2
Customer and Personal Service3.9
Therapy and Counseling3.6
Administrative3.5
Computers and Electronics3.5
Mathematics3.4
Software and technology used
Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft OutlookAdobe AcrobatAdobe IllustratorAdobe InDesignAdobe PhotoshopFacebookMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft Office softwareMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft SharePointMicrosoft WordEmail softwareHand held spell checkersScreen magnification softwareScreen reader softwareText to speech softwareVideo editing software
Highlighted = in demand: frequently listed in employer job postings for this occupation (O*NET).
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
About the job
What special education teachers, secondary school do
Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
Maintain accurate and complete student records, and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, and social development.
Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
Also called
HS SPED Teacher (High School Special Education Teacher)Learning Support TeacherSPED Resource Teacher (Special Education Resource Teacher)SPED Teacher (Special Education Teacher)Education SpecialistEmotional Disability Special Education Teacher (ED SPED Teacher)Exceptional Student Education Teacher (ESE Teacher)Handicapped TeacherLearning Disabilities Special Education Teacher (LD Special Education Teacher)Special Day Class Teacher (SDC Teacher)
More job titles for this occupation (41)
Blind TeacherBraille TeacherCross-Categorical SPED Teacher (Cross-Categorical Special Education Teacher)Deaf TeacherEmotionally Impaired TeacherExceptional Children's Teacher (EC Teacher)Hearing Impaired TeacherHigh School Learning Support TeacherInclusion CoordinatorInclusion Special EducatorInclusion SpecialistInclusion TeacherInterrelated SPED Teacher (Interrelated Special Education Teacher)Learning Disabled Teacher (LD Teacher)Learning SpecialistLife Skills TeacherLip Reading TeacherMI Teacher (Mentally Impaired Teacher)Physically Impaired TeacherReading SpecialistRemedial Math Teacher (Remedial Mathematics Teacher)Remedial Reading TeacherResource Center TeacherResource SpecialistResource Specialist TeacherResource TeacherRSP Specialist (Resource Specialist Program Specialist)Secondary School SPED Teacher (Secondary School Special Education Teacher)Secondary SPED Teacher (Secondary Special Education Teacher)SED High School Teacher (Serious Emotional Disability High School Teacher)Self-Contained Classroom SPED Teacher (Self-Contained Classroom Special Education Teacher)Severe Emotional Disorders High School TeacherSign Language TeacherSpecial EducatorSPED Inclusion Teacher (Special Education Inclusion Teacher)SPED Instructor (Special Education Instructor)SPED Itinerant Teacher (Special Education Itinerant Teacher)SPED Math Teacher (Special Education Mathematics Teacher)TeacherTransition TeacherVisually Impaired Teacher
Source: O*NET 31.0 (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0). These are general job titles, not H-1B filings; for titles employers actually filed, see “Job titles” above.
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