Georgia / Meriwether County Board of Education / Grade 8 Teacher

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Grade 8 Teacher

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

8 employees hold this title in Meriwether County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $54,218, above the department median of $45,077.

Employees: 8
Total payroll: $412K
Role median: $54,218
Agency median: $45,077
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$12,899$70,264+

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

How total compensation varies among the 8 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

Grade 8 Teacher pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education — about 23,610 people — is $64,780. Meriwether County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $54,421 for this role, 16% below that figure — about the 19th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

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

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$47,540

$58,830

$64,780

$78,680

$97,960

Meriwether County Board of Education median · $54,421

The bar is the range of annual wages for Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Meriwether 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 Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education — about 620,090 people — is $64,370. Meriwether County Board of Education’s median base salary is 15% below that national figure, about the 19th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$48,080

$58,530

$64,370

$80,490

$102,540

Meriwether County Board of Education median · $54,421

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 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 Meriwether County Board of Education is $54,218, 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

Grade 8 Teacher is held in 167 Georgia departments. In Meriwether County Board of Education, the median of $54,218 ranks #138 of 167.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Clayton County Board of Education

$99,016 · 4

Atlanta Independent School System

$89,760 · 13

Cobb County School District

$88,677 · 221

City of Calhoun Board of Education

$84,512 · 11

Burke County Board of Education

$84,141 · 16

City of Decatur Board of Education

$83,148 · 12

City of Jefferson Board of Education

$82,966 · 14

Dekalb County Board of Education

$81,630 · 4

Hancock County Board of Education

$80,491 · 2

City of Marietta Board of Education

$79,585 · 30

Houston County Board of Education

$79,058 · 74

City of Carrollton Board of Education

$77,327 · 16

Median total compensation for the Grade 8 Teacher role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

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