School Nurse

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Registered Nurses — about 100,950 people — is $93,550. Decatur County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $46,221 for this role, 51% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 5 of 8 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 Decatur County Board of Education is $37,839, 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.

School Nurse is held in 175 Georgia departments. In Decatur County Board of Education, the median of $37,839 ranks #105 of 175.

This role is reported in 4 jurisdictions. In Georgia, the median of $43,879 ranks #4 of 4. See School Nurse across all of Georgia →

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