Gifted Elementary Teacher P-5

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education — about 43,820 people — is $72,290. Laurens County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $82,584 for this role, 14% above that figure — about the 79th 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 Laurens County Board of Education is $80,177, 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.

Gifted Elementary Teacher P-5 is held in 139 Georgia departments. In Laurens County Board of Education, the median of $80,177 ranks #34 of 139.

• After-School Program Worker 5
• Assistant Principal 16
• Bookkeeper 6
• Bus Driver 61
• Custodial Personnel 56
• Elementary Counselor 6
• English for Speakers of Other Languages Teacher 7
• Gifted High 9
• Grade 1 Teacher 22
• Grade 10 Teacher 11
• Grade 11 Teacher 12
• Grade 12 Teacher 8
• Grade 2 Teacher 25
• Grade 3 Teacher 20
• Grade 4 Teacher 26
• Grade 5 Teacher 22
• Grade 6 Teacher 15
• Grade 7 Teacher 23
• Grade 8 Teacher 18
• Grade 9 Teacher 17
• Grades 6-8 Teacher 5
• Grades 9-12 Teacher 29
• Grades K-5 Teacher 9
• High School Counselor 6
• Instructional Specialist 11
• Instructional Specialist P-8 22
• Kindergarten Teacher 26
• Librarian/Media Specialist 8
• Lottery Pre-School Teacher 15
• Maintenance Personnel 7
• Member, Board of Education 5
• Middle School Explor Teacher 9
• Other Instructional Provider 14
• Paraprofessional Personnel - Pre-Kindergarten 10
• Paraprofessional/Teacher Aide 49
• Principal 9
• School Food Service Manager 8
• School Food Service Worker 85
• School Nurse 9
• School Psychologist 5
• School Secretary/Clerk 24
• Secretary 6
• Special Education Interrelated 76
• Special Education Parapro/Aide 50
• Speech-Language Pathologist 7
• Substitute Teacher 128
• Teacher of Autistic Students 6
• Teacher of Severe Intellectual 6
• Technology Specialist 6
• Transportation Mechanic 6
• Vocational 21