Principal

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary — about 7,530 people — is $103,360. Elbert County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $105,865 for this role, 2% above that figure — about the 53rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 5 of 6 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 Elbert County Board of Education is $105,137, 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.

Principal is held in 179 Georgia departments. In Elbert County Board of Education, the median of $105,137 ranks #140 of 179.

This role is reported in 7 jurisdictions. In Georgia, the median of $125,516 ranks #6 of 7. See Principal across all of Georgia →

• Assistant Principal 9
• Bus Driver 51
• Grade 1 Teacher 14
• Grade 2 Teacher 15
• Grade 3 Teacher 13
• Grade 4 Teacher 8
• Grade 5 Teacher 10
• Grade 6 Teacher 18
• Grade 7 Teacher 9
• Grade 8 Teacher 9
• Grades 9-12 Teacher 34
• Grades K-5 Teacher 5
• Instructional Specialist 5
• Instructional Specialist P-8 18
• Kindergarten Teacher 15
• Lottery Pre-School Teacher 10
• Paraprofessional Personnel - Pre-Kindergarten 9
• Paraprofessional/Teacher Aide 35
• School Food Service Manager 6
• School Food Service Worker 34
• School Nurse 9
• School Resource Officer 8
• School Secretary/Clerk 6
• Secretary 8
• Special Education Interrelated 37
• Special Education Parapro/Aide 22
• Speech-Language Pathologist 5
• Substitute Teacher 37
• Technology Specialist 5
• Vocational 10