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. Madison County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $80,940 for this role, 27% above that figure — about the 76th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 6 of 7 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 Madison County Board of Education is $79,659, 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 Madison County Board of Education, the median of $79,659 ranks #41 of 174.

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