Principal

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary — about 7,530 people — is $103,360. Gilmer County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $120,886 for this role, 17% above that figure — about the 69th 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 Gilmer County Board of Education is $119,595, 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 Gilmer County Board of Education, the median of $119,595 ranks #56 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 8
• Bookkeeper 5
• Bus Driver 43
• Business Service Secretary/Clerk 6
• Custodial Personnel 32
• Data Clerk 6
• Early Intervention Primary Teacher 10
• English for Speakers of Other Languages Teacher 23
• Gifted High 5
• Grade 1 Teacher 17
• Grade 2 Teacher 16
• Grade 3 Teacher 19
• Grade 4 Teacher 15
• Grade 5 Teacher 17
• Grade 6 Teacher 14
• Grade 7 Teacher 10
• Grade 8 Teacher 15
• Grades 9-12 Teacher 54
• Instructional Specialist 7
• Instructional Specialist P-8 15
• Is Personnel - Other Support 5
• Kindergarten Regular Education Teacher 14
• Librarian/Media Specialist 7
• Maintenance Personnel 12
• Member, Board of Education 6
• Paraprofessional Personnel - Pre-Kindergarten 6
• Paraprofessional/Teacher Aide 27
• Pre-School Regular Education Teacher 7
• School Food Service Manager 6
• School Food Service Worker 33
• School Nurse 5
• School Secretary/Clerk 10
• Special Education Bus Driver 6
• Special Education Interrelated 43
• Special Education Parapro/Aide 34
• Special Education Paraprofessional - Ages 3 to 5 5
• Substitute Teacher 111
• Technology Specialist 5
• Vocational 13