Georgia / Cobb County School District / Speech-Language Pathologist

Job-title file

Speech-Language Pathologist

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

205 employees hold this title in Cobb County School District. Median total compensation for the role is $87,550, above the department median of $61,478.

Employees: 205
Total payroll: $16.8M
Role median: $87,550
Agency median: $61,478
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$5,184$114,937+

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

How total compensation varies among the 205 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

Speech-Language Pathologist pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Speech-Language Pathologists — about 4,030 people — is $96,760. Cobb County School District pays a median base salary of $90,176 for this role, 7% below that figure — about the 43rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Cobb County School District sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$59,800

$73,990

$96,760

$108,030

$125,550

Cobb County School District median · $90,176

The bar is the range of annual wages for Speech-Language Pathologists 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 Speech-Language Pathologists — about 183,390 people — is $97,870. Cobb County School District’s median base salary is 8% below that national figure, about the 40th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$62,900

$77,730

$97,870

$114,570

$134,160

Cobb County School District median · $90,176

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 189 of 205 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 $87,550, 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

Speech-Language Pathologist is held in 164 Georgia departments. In Cobb County School District, the median of $87,550 ranks #4 of 164.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Atlanta Independent School System

$105,542 · 37

City of Social Circle Board of Education

$102,237 · 2

Treutlen County Board of Education

$93,087 · 1

City of Bremen Board of Education

$87,135 · 2

City of Rome Board of Education

$85,501 · 3

Pike County Board of Education

$85,401 · 2

Clayton County Board of Education

$85,055 · 5

Union County Board of Education

$84,834 · 6

Gwinnett County Board of Education

$84,747 · 16

Fulton County Board of Education

$84,609 · 115

Muscogee County Board of Education

$84,330 · 20

Putnam County Board of Education

$83,196 · 4

Median total compensation for the Speech-Language Pathologist role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

Compare jurisdictions

Speech Language Pathologist beyond Georgia

This role is reported in 6 jurisdictions. In Georgia, the median of $73,947 ranks #4 of 6. See Speech Language Pathologist across all of Georgia →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

Texas

$127,581 · 53

City of Boston

$123,192 · 187

Davis School District, Utah

$108,799 · 90

Cook County, Illinois

$12,256 · 9

New York Public Authorities

$4,908 · 16

Median total compensation for comparable Speech Language Pathologistroles 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