Georgia / Rockdale County Board of Education / Teacher of Autistic Students

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Teacher of Autistic Students

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

8 employees hold this title in Rockdale County Board of Education. Median total compensation for the role is $54,366, above the department median of $42,789.

Employees: 8
Total payroll: $378.3K
Role median: $54,366
Agency median: $42,789
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$888$73,385+

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

Teacher of Autistic Students pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Special Education Teachers, All Other — about 980 people — is $76,130. Rockdale County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $59,742 for this role, 22% below that figure — about the 23rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.

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

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$48,440

$61,740

$76,130

$92,300

$101,560

Rockdale County Board of Education median · $59,742

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 Rockdale 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. Rockdale County Board of Education’s median base salary is 22% below that national figure, about the 24th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$48,440

$60,930

$76,580

$99,690

$120,080

Rockdale County Board of Education median · $59,742

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 Rockdale County Board of Education is $54,366, 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.

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This role across Georgia

Teacher of Autistic Students is held in 57 Georgia departments. In Rockdale County Board of Education, the median of $54,366 ranks #47 of 57.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Thomaston-Upson County Board of Education

$96,918 · 1

City of Cartersville Board of Education

$83,719 · 1

Bartow County Board of Education

$82,842 · 22

Habersham County Board of Education

$81,824 · 9

Atlanta Independent School System

$79,505 · 57

Turner County Board of Education

$77,448 · 1

City of Dalton Board of Education

$75,473 · 1

Cobb County School District

$73,463 · 188

Lumpkin County Board of Education

$73,200 · 3

Fulton County Board of Education

$73,157 · 30

City of Gainesville Board of Education

$72,839 · 5

Appling County Board of Education

$71,336 · 2

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

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