Georgia / Clayton County Board of Education / School Food Service Worker

Job-title file

School Food Service Worker

Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.

337 employees hold this title in Clayton County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $26,206, below the department median of $54,625.

Employees: 337
Total payroll: $8.2M
Role median: $26,206
Agency median: $54,625
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$1,909$38,202+

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

How total compensation varies among the 337 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

School Food Service Worker pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Food Servers, Nonrestaurant — about 4,970 people — is $31,530. Clayton County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $28,047 for this role, 11% below that figure — about the 21st percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Clayton County Board of Education sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$25,850

$28,920

$31,530

$37,040

$39,610

Clayton County Board of Education median · $28,047

The bar is the range of annual wages for Food Servers, Nonrestaurant across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Clayton 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 Food Servers, Nonrestaurant — about 293,900 people — is $35,360. Clayton County Board of Education’s median base salary is 21% below that national figure, about the 10th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$28,030

$31,190

$35,360

$38,500

$46,120

Clayton County Board of Education median · $28,047

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 216 of 337 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 Clayton County Board of Education is $26,206, 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

School Food Service Worker is held in 178 Georgia departments. In Clayton County Board of Education, the median of $26,206 ranks #4 of 178.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Savannah-Chatham County Board of Education

$32,456 · 44

Taliaferro County Board of Education

$30,353 · 2

Hancock County Board of Education

$26,942 · 14

Warren County Board of Education

$25,876 · 8

Dooly County Board of Education

$25,717 · 12

City of Social Circle Board of Education

$25,655 · 13

Murray County Board of Education

$24,950 · 22

Baldwin County Board of Education

$24,750 · 30

Fulton County Board of Education

$23,682 · 346

Burke County Board of Education

$23,002 · 38

Gilmer County Board of Education

$22,901 · 33

Bulloch County Board of Education

$22,891 · 56

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

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