Georgia / Putnam County Board of Education / Special Education Interrelated
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
31 employees hold this title in Putnam County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $69,978, above the department median of $37,681.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 31 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 Special Education Teachers, All Other — about 980 people — is $76,130. Putnam County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $70,699 for this role, 7% below that figure — about the 41st percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Special Education Teachers, All Other across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Putnam 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 Special Education Teachers, All Other — about 33,930 people — is $76,580. Putnam County Board of Education’s median base salary is 8% below that national figure, about the 41st 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 31 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 $69,978, 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
Special Education Interrelated is held in 175 Georgia departments. In Putnam County Board of Education, the median of $69,978 ranks #25 of 175.
Median total compensation for the Special Education Interrelated role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Record list
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Special Education Interrelated/Putnam County Board of Education
Melissa Burke is a Special Education Interrelated at Putnam County Board of Education. 2025 total compensation came to $100,464.
Special Education Interrelated/Putnam County Board of Education
Saundra Pope holds the role of Special Education Interrelated at Putnam County Board of Education. In 2025, their total compensation was $89,997.