Georgia / Cobb County School District / School Social Worker
Job-title file
Assess client needs, develop service plans, and connect people with support resources.
38 employees hold this title in Cobb County School District. Median total compensation for the role is $91,108, above the department median of $61,478.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 38 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 Child, Family, and School Social Workers — about 7,110 people — is $47,510. Cobb County School District pays a median base salary of $93,060 for this role, 96% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Child, Family, and School Social Workers 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 Child, Family, and School Social Workers — about 392,550 people — is $59,550. Cobb County School District’s median base salary is 56% above that national figure, about the 88th 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 36 of 38 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 $91,108, 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
School Social Worker is held in 134 Georgia departments. In Cobb County School District, the median of $91,108 ranks #15 of 134.
Median total compensation for the School Social Worker role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 3 jurisdictions. In Georgia, the median of $76,516 ranks #3 of 3. See School Social Worker across all of Georgia →
Median total compensation for comparable School Social Workerroles 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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School Social Worker/Cobb County School District
Lisa Palmer holds the role of School Social Worker at Cobb County School District. In 2025, their total compensation was $42,999.
School Social Worker/Cobb County School District
Source-specific fields
At Cobb County School District, Lake Mcalpin serves as a School Social Worker. Their 2025 pay totaled $42,240.