Principal

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary — about 7,530 people — is $103,360. Sumter County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $125,027 for this role, 21% above that figure — about the 73rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 6 of 7 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 Sumter County Board of Education is $124,549, 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.

Principal is held in 179 Georgia departments. In Sumter County Board of Education, the median of $124,549 ranks #38 of 179.

This role is reported in 7 jurisdictions. In Georgia, the median of $125,516 ranks #6 of 7. See Principal across all of Georgia →

• Assistant Principal 9
• Bookkeeper 6
• Bus Driver 44
• Custodial Personnel 43
• Early Intervention Primary Teacher 10
• Early Intervention Program 4Th and 5Th Grade Teacher 10
• Early Intervention Teacher 7
• Elementary Counselor 7
• English for Speakers of Other Languages Teacher 6
• General Administrative Secretary/Clerk 5
• Grade 1 Teacher 15
• Grade 2 Teacher 16
• Grade 3 Teacher 13
• Grade 4 Teacher 14
• Grade 5 Teacher 10
• Grade 6 Teacher 12
• Grade 7 Teacher 11
• Grade 8 Teacher 15
• Grade 9 Teacher 8
• Grades 6-8 Teacher 5
• Grades 9-12 Teacher 39
• Grades K-5 Teacher 5
• Instructional Specialist 10
• Instructional Specialist P-8 19
• Kindergarten Teacher 14
• Librarian/Media Specialist 6
• Library/Media Support Paraprofessional 6
• Lottery Pre-School Teacher 12
• Maintenance Personnel 24
• Member, Board of Education 5
• Middle School Career, Technical and Agricultural Teacher 5
• Paraprofessional Personnel - Pre-Kindergarten 12
• Paraprofessional/Teacher Aide 34
• School Food Service Manager 5
• School Food Service Worker 48
• School Secretary/Clerk 16
• Special Education Bus Aide 8
• Special Education Interrelated 30
• Special Education Parapro/Aide 29
• Student Clerk/Aide 5
• Substitute Teacher 144
• Teacher of Mild Intellectual 6
• Teacher of Moderate Intellectual 8
• Teacher of Severe Intellectual 5
• Teacher of Specific Learning 5
• Technology Specialist 5
• Vocational 12