Georgia / Dekalb County Board of Education / Special Education Interrelated

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Special Education Interrelated

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

1,186 employees hold this title in Dekalb County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $70,003, above the department median of $57,833.

Employees: 1,186
Total payroll: $79.2M
Role median: $70,003
Agency median: $57,833
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$2,012$112,821+

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

How total compensation varies among the 1,186 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

Special Education Interrelated pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Special Education Teachers, All Other — about 980 people — is $76,130. Dekalb County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $72,195 for this role, 5% below that figure — about the 43rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.

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

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$48,440

$61,740

$76,130

$92,300

$101,560

Dekalb County Board of Education median · $72,195

The bar is the range of annual wages for Special Education Teachers, All Other 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 Special Education Teachers, All Other — about 33,930 people — is $76,580. Dekalb County Board of Education’s median base salary is 6% below that national figure, about the 43rd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$48,440

$60,930

$76,580

$99,690

$120,080

Dekalb County Board of Education median · $72,195

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 1,067 of 1,186 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 $70,003, 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

Special Education Interrelated is held in 175 Georgia departments. In Dekalb County Board of Education, the median of $70,003 ranks #24 of 175.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Atlanta Independent School System

$88,079 · 501

Quitman County Board of Education

$87,776 · 2

Cobb County School District

$86,954 · 1,007

Burke County Board of Education

$82,625 · 36

Bartow County Board of Education

$81,996 · 143

Hancock County Board of Education

$81,743 · 6

Fulton County Board of Education

$81,036 · 276

City of Buford Board of Education

$78,684 · 55

City of Cartersville Board of Education

$78,679 · 46

Houston County Board of Education

$78,379 · 246

Treutlen County Board of Education

$77,133 · 12

Walton County Board of Education

$76,980 · 138

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

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