Georgia / Grady County Board of Education / Grades K-5 Teacher

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Grades K-5 Teacher

Plan and deliver instruction, assess student progress, and develop curriculum.

25 employees hold this title in Grady County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $33,186, below the department median of $46,250.

Employees: 25
Total payroll: $1.1M
Role median: $33,186
Agency median: $46,250
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$5,981$81,568+

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

How total compensation varies among the 25 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

Grades K-5 Teacher pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education — about 43,820 people — is $72,290. Grady County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $36,851 for this role, 49% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

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

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$49,260

$61,110

$72,290

$77,870

$98,030

Grady County Board of Education median · $36,851

The bar is the range of annual wages for Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Grady 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 Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education — about 1,388,390 people — is $63,970. Grady County Board of Education’s median base salary is 42% below that national figure, below the 10th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$47,960

$57,710

$63,970

$81,450

$104,340

Grady County Board of Education median · $36,851

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 22 of 25 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 Grady County Board of Education is $33,186, 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

Grades K-5 Teacher is held in 137 Georgia departments. In Grady County Board of Education, the median of $33,186 ranks #122 of 137.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Cobb County School District

$96,588 · 137

Clayton County Board of Education

$85,155 · 51

Franklin County Board of Education

$82,323 · 2

Forsyth County Board of Education

$81,546 · 103

City of Marietta Board of Education

$81,121 · 49

Bartow County Board of Education

$80,631 · 5

Wilcox County Board of Education

$80,438 · 3

Fulton County Board of Education

$80,146 · 204

Gwinnett County Board of Education

$79,854 · 650

Atlanta Independent School System

$78,795 · 181

Wheeler County Board of Education

$78,651 · 2

City of Decatur Board of Education

$78,026 · 21

Median total compensation for the Grades K-5 Teacher role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

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