Georgia / Atlanta Independent School System / Bus Driver

Job-title file

Bus Driver

Operate vehicles or heavy equipment safely to move people or materials, and perform routine checks.

427 employees hold this title in Atlanta Independent School System. Median total compensation for the role is $46,198, below the department median of $66,865.

Employees: 427
Total payroll: $19M
Role median: $46,198
Agency median: $66,865
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$53$92,342+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 427 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.

Compared with the local labor market

Bus Driver pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Bus Drivers, School — about 16,880 people — is $44,950. Atlanta Independent School System pays a median base salary of $52,939 for this role, 18% above that figure — about the 78th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Atlanta Independent School System sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$20,740

$27,570

$44,950

$50,490

$62,060

Atlanta Independent School System median · $52,939

The bar is the range of annual wages for Bus Drivers, School across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Atlanta Independent School System’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Bus Drivers, School — about 402,930 people — is $47,920. Atlanta Independent School System’s median base salary is 10% above that national figure, about the 62nd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$29,240

$38,650

$47,920

$58,430

$65,730

Atlanta Independent School System median · $52,939

Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Georgia range relative to the national one.

Computed over the 333 of 427 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Atlanta Independent School System is $46,198, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Compare departments

This role across Georgia

Bus Driver is held in 178 Georgia departments. In Atlanta Independent School System, the median of $46,198 ranks #3 of 178.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Savannah-Chatham County Board of Education

$48,700 · 186

City of Decatur Board of Education

$47,479 · 19

Dekalb County Board of Education

$45,117 · 701

Clayton County Board of Education

$44,906 · 378

Cobb County School District

$43,515 · 939

Fulton County Board of Education

$37,737 · 471

Gwinnett County Board of Education

$36,186 · 1,668

City of Dalton Board of Education

$36,180 · 1

City of Marietta Board of Education

$36,145 · 107

City of Gainesville Board of Education

$35,230 · 50

Webster County Board of Education

$35,154 · 1

Houston County Board of Education

$34,456 · 212

Median total compensation for the Bus Driver role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

Compare jurisdictions

Bus Driver beyond Georgia

This role is reported in 6 jurisdictions. In Georgia, the median of $27,822 ranks #4 of 6. See Bus Driver across all of Georgia →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

New York Public Authorities

$56,153 · 18

Davis School District, Utah

$37,686 · 97

New Jersey

$36,930 · 23

Metro Nashville

$23,567 · 76

Missouri

$14,037 · 7

Median total compensation for comparable Bus Driverroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.

Record list