Georgia / Dekalb County Board of Education / Grade 1 Teacher

Job-title file

Grade 1 Teacher

Plan and deliver instruction, assess student progress, and develop curriculum.

303 employees hold this title in Dekalb County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $72,593, above the department median of $57,833.

Employees: 303
Total payroll: $20.8M
Role median: $72,593
Agency median: $57,833
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$3,927$108,755+

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

How total compensation varies among the 303 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

Grade 1 Teacher pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education — about 43,820 people — is $72,290. Dekalb County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $74,149 for this role, 3% above that figure — about the 58th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

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

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$49,260

$61,110

$72,290

$77,870

$98,030

Dekalb County Board of Education median · $74,149

The bar is the range of annual wages for Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 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 Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education — about 1,388,390 people — is $63,970. Dekalb County Board of Education’s median base salary is 16% above that national figure, about the 65th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$47,960

$57,710

$63,970

$81,450

$104,340

Dekalb County Board of Education median · $74,149

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 272 of 303 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 Dekalb County Board of Education is $72,593, 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

Grade 1 Teacher is held in 174 Georgia departments. In Dekalb County Board of Education, the median of $72,593 ranks #12 of 174.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Cobb County School District

$84,950 · 375

Atlanta Independent School System

$84,366 · 148

City of Decatur Board of Education

$82,015 · 18

Turner County Board of Education

$80,616 · 3

Seminole County Board of Education

$79,071 · 3

City of Buford Board of Education

$77,367 · 24

Laurens County Board of Education

$75,732 · 22

Clayton County Board of Education

$73,657 · 170

Fulton County Board of Education

$73,382 · 178

Burke County Board of Education

$73,260 · 10

Sumter County Board of Education

$73,017 · 15

Lamar County Board of Education

$72,011 · 10

Median total compensation for the Grade 1 Teacher role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

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