Georgia / Houston County Board of Education / Custodial Personnel

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Custodial Personnel

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

220 employees hold this title in Houston County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $29,614, below the department median of $41,621.

Employees: 220
Total payroll: $6.1M
Role median: $29,614
Agency median: $41,621
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$88$48,499+

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

How total compensation varies among the 220 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

Custodial Personnel pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners — about 55,660 people — is $34,310. Houston County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $34,483 for this role, in line with that figure — about the 51st percentile of local pay for the occupation.

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

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$26,110

$29,270

$34,310

$37,470

$44,390

Houston County Board of Education median · $34,483

The bar is the range of annual wages for Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Houston 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 Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners — about 2,209,760 people — is $36,840. Houston County Board of Education’s median base salary is 6% below that national figure, about the 37th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$28,640

$32,240

$36,840

$44,060

$50,270

Houston County Board of Education median · $34,483

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 151 of 220 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 Houston County Board of Education is $29,614, 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

Custodial Personnel is held in 154 Georgia departments. In Houston County Board of Education, the median of $29,614 ranks #61 of 154.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Fulton County Board of Education

$51,937 · 281

Central Savannah River Area Regional Educational Service Agency

$49,950 · 1

City of Marietta Board of Education

$49,144 · 12

Heard County Board of Education

$48,503 · 1

Gwinnett County Board of Education

$46,321 · 1,189

Douglas County Board of Education

$45,454 · 92

City of Chickamauga Board of Education

$43,553 · 11

Barrow County Board of Education

$43,134 · 43

Walton County Board of Education

$42,981 · 96

Savannah-Chatham County Board of Education

$42,914 · 275

City of Decatur Board of Education

$42,829 · 37

City of Bremen Board of Education

$40,944 · 1

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

Same department

Other job titles in Houston County Board of Education

Assistant Principal 100
Bookkeeper 19
Bus Driver 212
Data Clerk 44
Early Intervention Primary Teacher 37
Early Intervention Program 4Th and 5Th Grade Teacher 22
Elementary Counselor 26
English for Speakers of Other Languages Teacher 38
Food Service Administrator 14
General Administrative Secretary/Clerk 30
Gifted 91
Gifted Elementary Teacher P-5 114
Gifted High 61
Grade 1 Teacher 107
Grade 2 Teacher 110
Grade 3 Teacher 109
Grade 4 Teacher 73
Grade 5 Teacher 91
Grade 6 Teacher 75
Grade 7 Teacher 77
Grade 8 Teacher 74
Grades 6-8 Teacher 15
Grades 9-12 Teacher 317
Grades K-5 Teacher 15
High School Counselor 31
Instructional Specialist 19
Instructional Specialist P-8 140
Instructional Supervisor 18
Kindergarten Teacher 108
Librarian/Media Specialist 41
Lottery Pre-School Teacher 59
Maintenance Personnel 118
Middle School Career, Technical and Agricultural Teacher 32
Middle School Counselor 19
Military Science Teacher 13
Miscellaneous Activities 976
Nursing Assistant / Health Technician 42
Paraprofessional Personnel - Pre-Kindergarten 57
Paraprofessional/Teacher Aide 156
Parent Coordinator 19
Preschool Special Education Teacher 17
Principal 43
School Food Service Manager 45
School Food Service Worker 429
School Nurse 12
School Psychologist 13
School Secretary/Clerk 23
Secretary 49
Special Education Bus Aide 91
Special Education Interrelated 246
Special Education Parapro/Aide 301
Speech-Language Pathologist 46
Teacher of Autistic Students 17
Teacher of Mild Intellectual 32
Teacher of Moderate Intellectual 28
Teacher of Profound Intellectual 13
Technology Specialist 32
Vocational 56
Warehouseman 14

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