Georgia / Newton County Board of Education / School Resource Officer

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School Resource Officer

Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.

16 employees hold this title in Newton County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $62,468, above the department median of $37,312.

Employees: 16
Total payroll: $945.2K
Role median: $62,468
Agency median: $37,312
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$14,324$90,191+

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

How total compensation varies among the 16 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

School Resource Officer pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers — about 22,170 people — is $58,120. Newton County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $64,293 for this role, 11% above that figure — about the 76th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

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

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$43,690

$48,290

$58,120

$63,270

$76,250

Newton County Board of Education median · $64,293

The bar is the range of annual wages for Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Newton 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 Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers — about 670,520 people — is $76,210. Newton County Board of Education’s median base salary is 16% below that national figure, about the 32nd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$47,510

$59,290

$76,210

$97,600

$115,120

Newton County Board of Education median · $64,293

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 14 of 16 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 Newton County Board of Education is $62,468, 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

School Resource Officer is held in 51 Georgia departments. In Newton County Board of Education, the median of $62,468 ranks #12 of 51.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Gwinnett County Board of Education

$103,844 · 26

Cobb County School District

$95,801 · 12

City of Buford Board of Education

$91,897 · 8

Dekalb County Board of Education

$85,609 · 92

Clayton County Board of Education

$81,184 · 49

Douglas County Board of Education

$71,457 · 34

Cherokee County Board of Education

$69,449 · 35

Brantley County Board of Education

$69,053 · 4

Bibb County Board of Education

$67,874 · 22

Screven County Board of Education

$64,856 · 1

Habersham County Board of Education

$63,541 · 1

Union County Board of Education

$61,752 · 7

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

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