Georgia / Dekalb County Board of Education / Grades 6-8 Teacher

Job-title file

Grades 6-8 Teacher

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

980 employees hold this title in Dekalb County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $76,713, above the department median of $57,833.

Employees: 980
Total payroll: $70.6M
Role median: $76,713
Agency median: $57,833
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$2,697$115,094+

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

How total compensation varies among the 980 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

Grades 6-8 Teacher pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education — about 23,610 people — is $64,780. Dekalb County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $78,527 for this role, 21% above that figure — about the 75th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

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

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$47,540

$58,830

$64,780

$78,680

$97,960

Dekalb County Board of Education median · $78,527

The bar is the range of annual wages for Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical 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 Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education — about 620,090 people — is $64,370. Dekalb County Board of Education’s median base salary is 22% above that national figure, about the 72nd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$48,080

$58,530

$64,370

$80,490

$102,540

Dekalb County Board of Education median · $78,527

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 894 of 980 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 $76,713, 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

Grades 6-8 Teacher is held in 145 Georgia departments. In Dekalb County Board of Education, the median of $76,713 ranks #16 of 145.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Haralson County Board of Education

$97,013 · 1

City of Buford Board of Education

$96,607 · 2

Bartow County Board of Education

$95,151 · 10

Cobb County School District

$89,476 · 135

Atlanta Independent School System

$86,408 · 387

Walton County Board of Education

$86,185 · 8

Fayette County Board of Education

$83,779 · 220

Fulton County Board of Education

$82,844 · 680

Cherokee County Board of Education

$82,108 · 17

City of Social Circle Board of Education

$80,160 · 13

Liberty County Board of Education

$79,222 · 9

Bryan County Board of Education

$79,151 · 2

Median total compensation for the Grades 6-8 Teacher role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

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