Georgia / Superior Courts / Superior Court Judge
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
234 employees hold this title in Superior Courts. Median total compensation for the role is $144,790, above the department median of $62,172.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 234 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 Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates — about 1,190 people — is $133,660. Superior Courts pays a median base salary of $144,790 for this role, 8% above that figure — about the 63rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Superior Courts’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates — about 24,030 people — is $153,990. Superior Courts’s median base salary is 6% below that national figure, about the 47th 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.
Median total compensation for this role at Superior Courts is $144,790, 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
Superior Court Judge is held in 3 Georgia departments. In Superior Courts, the median of $144,790 ranks #2 of 3.
Median total compensation for the Superior Court Judge role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 2 jurisdictions. In Georgia, the median of $144,790 ranks #1 of 2. See Superior Court Judge across all of Georgia →
Median total compensation for comparable Superior Court Judgeroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Superior Court Judge/Superior Courts
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Russell Smith works as a Superior Court Judge for Superior Courts. Russell earned $84,461 in 2025.
Superior Court Judge/Superior Courts
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Bobby Caudell is a Superior Court Judge at Superior Courts. 2025 total compensation came to $84,461.