Behavior Support Specialist (Certified)

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Marriage and Family Therapists is $91,550. Cherokee County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $73,795 for this role, 19% below that figure — about the 32nd percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 13 of 14 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Cherokee County Board of Education is $65,293, 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.

Behavior Support Specialist (Certified) is held in 22 Georgia departments. In Cherokee County Board of Education, the median of $87,464 ranks #11 of 22.

• Assistant Principal 97
• Bookkeeper 39
• Bus Driver 418
• Business Service Secretary/Clerk 14
• Custodial Personnel 291
• Early Intervention Primary Teacher 65
• Early Intervention Program 4Th and 5Th Grade Teacher 36
• Early Intervention Teacher 14
• Elementary Counselor 52
• English for Speakers of Other Languages Teacher 135
• Enterprise Technician 19
• General Administrative Secretary/Clerk 43
• Gifted Elementary Teacher P-5 38
• Grade 1 Teacher 156
• Grade 2 Teacher 160
• Grade 3 Teacher 167
• Grade 4 Teacher 139
• Grade 5 Teacher 139
• Grade 6 Teacher 123
• Grade 7 Teacher 123
• Grade 8 Teacher 135
• Grades 6-8 Teacher 17
• Grades 9-12 Teacher 585
• Grades K-5 Teacher 19
• Head Start Worker 14
• High School Counselor 31
• In-School Suspension Teacher 17
• Instructional Specialist 42
• Instructional Specialist P-8 129
• Instructional Supervisor 23
• Kindergarten Teacher 155
• Librarian/Media Specialist 42
• Maintenance Personnel 42
• Middle School Counselor 26
• Middle School Explor Teacher 73
• Occupational Therapist 18
• Other Instructional Provider 22
• Other Transportation 80
• Paraprofessional/Teacher Aide 295
• Preschool Special Education Teacher 26
• Principal 37
• School Food Service Manager 76
• School Food Service Worker 263
• School Nurse 45
• School Psychologist 38
• School Resource Officer 35
• School Secretary/Clerk 137
• Special Education Interrelated 430
• Special Education Parapro/Aide 336
• Special Education Paraprofessional - Ages 3 to 5 38
• Special Education Specialist 44
• Speech-Language Pathologist 82
• Substitute Teacher 1,295
• Teacher of Autistic Students 42
• Teacher of Emotional/Behavioral 39
• Teacher of Mild Intellectual 13
• Teacher of Moderate Intellectual 32
• Technology Specialist 40
• Transportation Mechanic 20
• Vocational 69