Georgia / Georgia Southern University / Service/Maintenance Worker

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Service/Maintenance Worker

Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.

332 employees hold this title in Georgia Southern University. Median total compensation for the role is $31,840, above the department median of $11,542.

Employees: 332
Total payroll: $8.6M
Role median: $31,840
Agency median: $11,542
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$28$44,275+

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

How total compensation varies among the 332 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

Service/Maintenance Worker pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General — about 48,430 people — is $47,680. Georgia Southern University pays a median base salary of $33,837 for this role, 29% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Georgia Southern University sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$33,920

$39,150

$47,680

$60,010

$72,480

Georgia Southern University median · $33,837

The bar is the range of annual wages for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Georgia Southern University’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General — about 1,529,700 people — is $49,590. Georgia Southern University’s median base salary is 32% below that national figure, below the 10th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$35,350

$40,840

$49,590

$62,620

$77,180

Georgia Southern University median · $33,837

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 210 of 332 people in this role paid at least $25,000in 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 Georgia Southern University is $31,840, 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

Service/Maintenance Worker is held in 27 Georgia departments. In Georgia Southern University, the median of $31,840 ranks #12 of 27.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Georgia Institute of Technology

$40,577 · 692

Georgia Highlands College

$39,286 · 11

Kennesaw State University

$37,532 · 147

University of Georgia

$37,261 · 1,109

University of North Georgia

$35,506 · 141

Augusta University

$34,824 · 187

Gordon State College

$33,078 · 12

Middle Georgia State University

$32,518 · 18

Valdosta State University

$32,433 · 58

Albany State University

$32,195 · 49

College of Coastal Georgia

$32,193 · 21

Georgia State University

$31,707 · 344

Median total compensation for the Service/Maintenance Worker role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

Record list