Elementary Counselor

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors — about 11,460 people — is $63,720. Liberty County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $67,065 for this role, 5% above that figure — about the 55th 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 Liberty County Board of Education is $65,450, 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.

Elementary Counselor is held in 174 Georgia departments. In Liberty County Board of Education, the median of $65,450 ranks #111 of 174.

• Assistant Principal 24
• Bookkeeper 18
• Bus Driver 77
• Custodial Personnel 75
• Director of Child Serve 6
• Early Intervention Primary Teacher 28
• Early Intervention Program 4Th and 5Th Grade Teacher 17
• Early Intervention Teacher 12
• Food Service Sec/Clerk/Bkkpr 15
• General Administrative Secretary/Clerk 7
• Gifted 7
• Gifted Elementary Teacher P-5 9
• Grade 1 Teacher 39
• Grade 2 Teacher 39
• Grade 3 Teacher 44
• Grade 4 Teacher 33
• Grade 5 Teacher 33
• Grade 6 Teacher 35
• Grade 7 Teacher 31
• Grade 8 Teacher 43
• Grades 6-8 Teacher 9
• Grades 9-12 Teacher 130
• Grades K-5 Teacher 7
• High School Counselor 10
• Human Resources Personnel 5
• Information Services Clerk 14
• Instructional Specialist 15
• Instructional Specialist P-8 43
• Instructional Supervisor 9
• Kindergarten Regular Education Teacher 39
• Librarian/Media Specialist 15
• Library/Media Support Paraprofessional 16
• Maintenance Personnel 13
• Member, Board of Education 7
• Middle School Counselor 6
• Paraprofessional Personnel - Pre-Kindergarten 29
• Paraprofessional/Teacher Aide 91
• Parent Coordinator 6
• Pre-School Regular Education Teacher 21
• Preschool Special Education Teacher 6
• Principal 17
• School Food Service Manager 15
• School Food Service Worker 71
• School Nurse 16
• School Psychologist 9
• School Social Worker 6
• Secretary 11
• Special Education Bus Aide 31
• Special Education Bus Driver 19
• Special Education Interrelated 88
• Special Education Parapro/Aide 119
• Special Education Paraprofessional - Ages 3 to 5 12
• Speech-Language Pathologist 8
• Substitute Teacher 242
• Teacher of Autistic Students 7
• Teacher of Moderate Intellectual 19
• Technology Specialist 10
• Transportation Mechanic 6
• Vocational 25