Georgia / Dekalb County Board of Education / Custodial Personnel

Job-title file

Custodial Personnel

Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.

824 employees hold this title in Dekalb County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $36,762, below the department median of $57,833.

Employees: 824
Total payroll: $27.3M
Role median: $36,762
Agency median: $57,833
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$234$55,085+

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

How total compensation varies among the 824 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

Custodial Personnel pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners — about 55,660 people — is $34,310. Dekalb County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $38,057 for this role, 11% above that figure — about the 76th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

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

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$26,110

$29,270

$34,310

$37,470

$44,390

Dekalb County Board of Education median · $38,057

The bar is the range of annual wages for Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Dekalb 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 Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners — about 2,209,760 people — is $36,840. Dekalb County Board of Education’s median base salary is 3% above that national figure, about the 54th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$28,640

$32,240

$36,840

$44,060

$50,270

Dekalb County Board of Education median · $38,057

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 616 of 824 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 Dekalb County Board of Education is $36,762, 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

Custodial Personnel is held in 154 Georgia departments. In Dekalb County Board of Education, the median of $36,762 ranks #26 of 154.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Fulton County Board of Education

$51,937 · 281

Central Savannah River Area R.E.S.A.

$49,950 · 1

City of Marietta Board of Education

$49,144 · 12

Heard County Board of Education

$48,503 · 1

Gwinnett County Board of Education

$46,321 · 1,189

Douglas County Board of Education

$45,454 · 92

City of Chickamauga Board of Education

$43,553 · 11

Barrow County Board of Education

$43,134 · 43

Walton County Board of Education

$42,981 · 96

Savannah-Chatham County Board of Education

$42,914 · 275

City of Decatur Board of Education

$42,829 · 37

City of Bremen Board of Education

$40,944 · 1

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

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