Georgia / Fayette County Board of Education / Behavior Support Specialist (Classified)

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Behavior Support Specialist (Classified)

Coordinate and deliver a specific program area, supporting planning, outreach, and daily operations.

11 employees hold this title in Fayette County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $25,894, below the department median of $43,382.

Employees: 11
Total payroll: $294.8K
Role median: $25,894
Agency median: $43,382
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$21,435$34,782+

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

How total compensation varies among the 11 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

Behavior Support Specialist (Classified) pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Marriage and Family Therapists is $91,550. Fayette County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $31,020 for this role, 66% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

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

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$42,430

$67,320

$91,550

$101,460

$102,320

Fayette County Board of Education median · $31,020

The bar is the range of annual wages for Marriage and Family Therapists across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Fayette 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 Marriage and Family Therapists — about 66,740 people — is $66,940. Fayette County Board of Education’s median base salary is 54% below that national figure, below the 10th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$44,650

$50,070

$66,940

$93,840

$123,730

Fayette County Board of Education median · $31,020

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 11 of 15 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 Fayette County Board of Education is $28,182, 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

Behavior Support Specialist (Classified) is held in 18 Georgia departments. In Fayette County Board of Education, the median of $25,894 ranks #16 of 18.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Appling County Board of Education

$73,083 · 1

Meriwether County Board of Education

$72,117 · 1

Polk School District

$57,882 · 2

Emanuel County Board of Education

$54,828 · 1

Long County Board of Education

$44,618 · 3

First District Regional Educational Service Agency

$40,028 · 4

Richmond County Board of Education

$38,700 · 2

Cherokee County Board of Education

$38,159 · 6

Taylor County Board of Education

$34,786 · 2

Bartow County Board of Education

$31,282 · 2

City of Dalton Board of Education

$29,071 · 5

Griffin - Spalding County Board of Education

$27,957 · 12

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

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