Principal

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary — about 7,530 people — is $103,360. Thomas County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $111,476 for this role, 8% above that figure — about the 59th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 8 of 9 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 Thomas County Board of Education is $111,121, 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 Thomas County Board of Education, the median of $111,121 ranks #95 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 14
• Bookkeeper 10
• Bus Driver 61
• Crossroads Alt School Teacher 7
• Early Intervention Primary Teacher 10
• Early Intervention Program 4Th and 5Th Grade Teacher 5
• Enterprise Technician 10
• Grade 1 Teacher 23
• Grade 2 Teacher 19
• Grade 3 Teacher 25
• Grade 4 Teacher 22
• Grade 5 Teacher 14
• Grade 6 Teacher 17
• Grade 7 Teacher 20
• Grade 8 Teacher 24
• Grades 6-8 Teacher 6
• Grades 9-12 Teacher 90
• Grades K-5 Teacher 6
• High School Counselor 7
• Information Service Personnel 7
• Instructional Specialist 5
• Instructional Specialist P-8 23
• Kindergarten Teacher 19
• Librarian/Media Specialist 5
• Lottery Pre-School Teacher 17
• Maintenance Personnel 18
• Member, Board of Education 7
• Middle School Career, Technical and Agricultural Teacher 5
• Non-Instructional Aide 5
• Other Transportation 17
• Paraprofessional Personnel - Pre-Kindergarten 21
• Paraprofessional/Teacher Aide 50
• Preschool Special Education Teacher 5
• Psychoeducational Parapro/Teacher Aide 8
• School Food Service Manager 11
• School Food Service Worker 61
• School Nurse 9
• School Psychologist 5
• School Secretary/Clerk 11
• Special Education Bus Aide 8
• Special Education Bus Driver 13
• Special Education Interrelated 90
• Special Education Parapro/Aide 91
• Speech-Language Pathologist 15
• Substitute Teacher 277
• Teacher of Moderate Intellectual 7
• Technology Specialist 6
• Vocational 20