Georgia / Meriwether County Board of Education / Grades 9-12 Teacher
Job-title file
Plan and deliver instruction, assess student progress, and develop curriculum.
38 employees hold this title in Meriwether County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $52,442, above the department median of $45,077.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 38 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
Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education — about 25,730 people — is $75,480. Meriwether County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $58,568 for this role, 22% below that figure — about the 22nd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Secondary 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 Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education — about 1,065,210 people — is $72,040. Meriwether County Board of Education’s median base salary is 19% below that national figure, about the 23rd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
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 28 of 38 people in this role paid at least $25,000in 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 $52,442, 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
Grades 9-12 Teacher is held in 179 Georgia departments. In Meriwether County Board of Education, the median of $52,442 ranks #170 of 179.
Median total compensation for the Grades 9-12 Teacher role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Record list
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Grades 9-12 Teacher/Meriwether County Board of Education
Antonio Owens holds the role of Grades 9-12 Teacher at Meriwether County Board of Education. In 2025, their total compensation was $97,216.
Grades 9-12 Teacher/Meriwether County Board of Education
Robert Saunders works as a Grades 9-12 Teacher for Meriwether County Board of Education. Robert earned $86,054 in 2025.