Georgia / Bartow County Board of Education / Principal
Job-title file
Principal
Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.
23 employees hold this title in Bartow County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $146,174, above the department median of $53,202.
- Employees
- 23
- Total payroll
- $3.2M
- Role median
- $146,174
- Agency median
- $53,202
- Comparison
- Above
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 23 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
Principal pay vs. Georgia
Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary — about 7,530 people — is $103,360. Bartow County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $146,174 for this role, 41% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Bartow County Board of Education sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Bartow County Board of Education’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary — about 328,330 people — is $105,870. Bartow County Board of Education’s median base salary is 38% above that national figure, about the 80th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
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 22 of 23 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 Bartow County Board of Education is $146,174, 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
Principal is held in 179 Georgia departments. In Bartow County Board of Education, the median of $146,174 ranks #7 of 179.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Principal role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
Principal beyond Georgia
This role is reported in 7 jurisdictions. In Georgia, the median of $125,516 ranks #6 of 7. See Principal across all of Georgia →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Principalroles 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.
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