Bergen County Vocational Technical School District

What the Numbers Say About Bergen County Vocational Technical School District

Bergen County Vocational Technical School District is a small school district in New Jersey, serving 2,368 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $45,837. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $181,001, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 3401470 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the New Jersey statewide average of $117,603, teacher pay in Bergen County Vocational Technical School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 53.9% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (119.9% differential). Among enrolling districts in New Jersey, it pays more than 99% of them. Licensing reciprocity, collective bargaining strength, and state aid formulas all contribute to where a district lands in these tiers.

On the budget side, Bergen County Vocational Technical School District reports $108.5M in total expenditure against $107.4M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 26% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $10.9M, special-education teacher pay is $0.0M. These figures are district-level aggregates from F-33, not individual contracts — step-and-column schedules, stipends, and collectively-bargained differentials sit underneath these totals.