Grades 9-12 Teacher

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. Putnam County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $69,325 for this role, 8% below that figure — about the 39th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 43 of 51 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 Putnam County Board of Education is $63,860, 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.

Grades 9-12 Teacher is held in 179 Georgia departments. In Putnam County Board of Education, the median of $63,860 ranks #113 of 179.