Principal

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary — about 7,530 people — is $103,360. Thomaston-Upson County Board of Education pays a median base salary of $111,242 for this role, 8% above that figure — about the 58th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Median total compensation for this role at Thomaston-Upson County Board of Education is $111,242, 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 Thomaston-Upson County Board of Education, the median of $111,242 ranks #94 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 11
• Bus Driver 49
• Custodial Personnel 39
• Elementary Counselor 5
• Grade 1 Teacher 20
• Grade 2 Teacher 18
• Grade 3 Teacher 16
• Grade 4 Teacher 10
• Grade 5 Teacher 16
• Grade 6 Teacher 8
• Grade 7 Teacher 5
• Grade 8 Teacher 8
• Grades 6-8 Teacher 33
• Grades 9-12 Teacher 54
• Grades K-5 Teacher 9
• High School Counselor 5
• Instructional Specialist 10
• Instructional Specialist P-8 12
• Kindergarten Teacher 16
• Lottery Pre-School Teacher 6
• Maintenance Personnel 11
• Member, Board of Education 9
• Miscellaneous Activities 28
• Other Transportation 6
• Paraprofessional Personnel - Pre-Kindergarten 7
• Paraprofessional/Teacher Aide 43
• Psychoeducational Parapro/Teacher Aide 7
• School Food Service Manager 6
• School Food Service Worker 51
• School Nurse 7
• School Secretary/Clerk 16
• Secretary 8
• Special Education Bus Aide 6
• Special Education Bus Driver 5
• Special Education Interrelated 51
• Special Education Parapro/Aide 35
• Speech-Language Pathologist 5
• Teacher of Moderate Intellectual 5
• Technology Specialist 8
• Vocational 10