16. Florida
Annual median salary: $47,890
Cost of living index: 99
Employment: 12,200
At the moment, Florida has the highest demand for special education teachers. Their many special education institutions prove to be doing really well, as we can see in their statistics. Their annual median wages for these professionals, however, did not make the cut on the average. Special education teachers can still find consolation in their low cost of living rates, which is 1% lower than the national average. It might not seem so much, but 1% is 1%.