Georgia / Cobb County School District / Assistant Principal
Job-title file
Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.
276 employees hold this title in Cobb County School District. Median total compensation for the role is $120,150, above the department median of $61,478.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 276 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
Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary — about 7,530 people — is $103,360. Cobb County School District pays a median base salary of $120,150 for this role, 16% above that figure — about the 68th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
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 Cobb County School District’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. Cobb County School District’s median base salary is 13% above that national figure, about the 62nd 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 273 of 276 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 Cobb County School District is $120,150, 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
Assistant Principal is held in 173 Georgia departments. In Cobb County School District, the median of $120,150 ranks #6 of 173.
Median total compensation for the Assistant Principal role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 7 jurisdictions. In Georgia, the median of $100,974 ranks #7 of 7. See Assistant Principal across all of Georgia →
Median total compensation for comparable Assistant 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.
Record list
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Assistant Principal/Cobb County School District
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James Case is a Assistant Principal at Cobb County School District. 2025 total compensation came to $87,807.