High School Counselor

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors — about 11,460 people — is $63,720. Floyd County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $79,512 for this role, 25% above that figure — about the 75th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 7 of 8 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 Floyd County Board of Education is $79,512, 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.

High School Counselor is held in 172 Georgia departments. In Floyd County Board of Education, the median of $79,512 ranks #77 of 172.

• Assistant Principal 22
• Athletics Personnel 19
• Bookkeeper 17
• Bus Driver 98
• Custodial Personnel 16
• Diagnostician 5
• Elementary Counselor 9
• English for Speakers of Other Languages Teacher 16
• Gifted Elementary Teacher P-5 11
• Gifted High 6
• Grade 1 Teacher 35
• Grade 2 Teacher 40
• Grade 3 Teacher 37
• Grade 4 Teacher 33
• Grade 5 Teacher 29
• Grade 6 Teacher 27
• Grade 7 Teacher 33
• Grade 8 Teacher 28
• Grades 9-12 Teacher 148
• Human Resources Personnel 5
• Information Services Clerk 5
• Instructional Specialist 68
• Instructional Specialist P-8 52
• Interpreter 7
• Is Personnel - School Administrative 16
• Is Personnel - Support Service 6
• Kindergarten Teacher 39
• Librarian/Media Specialist 11
• Lottery Pre-School Teacher 21
• Maintenance Personnel 17
• Member, Board of Education 6
• Middle School Counselor 6
• Other Transportation 7
• Paraprofessional Personnel - Pre-Kindergarten 21
• Paraprofessional/Teacher Aide 65
• Preschool Special Education Teacher 14
• Principal 17
• School Food Service Manager 17
• School Food Service Worker 24
• School Social Worker 7
• Special Education Interrelated 80
• Special Education Parapro/Aide 121
• Special Education Specialist 8
• Speech-Language Pathologist 23
• Teacher of Autistic Students 14
• Teacher of Emotional/Behavioral 11
• Teacher of Mild Intellectual 7
• Teacher of Moderate Intellectual 7
• Transportation Mechanic 5
• Vocational 14