SALARY · PRESCHOOL TEACHERS, EXCEPT SPECIAL EDUCATION · NORTH CAROLINA

Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education salary in North Carolina

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For preschool teachers, except special education in North Carolina, BLS put the median at $35,710 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$35,710

$17 per hour at the median · That is $2,430 (6.4 percent) below the national median of $38,140 for this occupation.

$37,340Mean annual salary

$18Mean hourly wage

$18,370People employed in this job in North Carolina

Salary range

25th: $30,700Median: $35,71075th: $40,330

Measure	Annual
25th percentile	$30,700
Median (50th percentile)	$35,710
75th percentile	$40,330
Mean	$37,340

The middle half of workers earned from $30,700 to $40,330 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$29,957 a year

$2,496 a month

Federal tax $2,105 · FICA $2,732 · State tax $916

Caveat: the North Carolina rate is from NCDOR, but the $12,750 deduction comes from the statute text, not an NCDOR deduction page.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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