South Carolina / Department of Social Services / Case Worker III
Job-title file
Assess client needs, develop service plans, and connect people with support resources.
75 employees hold this title in Department of Social Services. Median total compensation for the role is $70,890, above the department median of $55,264.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 75 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 South Carolina, the median wage for Social and Human Service Assistants — about 5,220 people — is $38,550. Department of Social Services pays a median base salary of $54,176 for this role, 41% above that figure — about the 85th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Social and Human Service Assistants across every employer in South Carolina, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Social Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Social and Human Service Assistants — about 437,860 people — is $45,930. Department of Social Services’s median base salary is 18% above that national figure, about the 74th 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 South Carolina range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 1,646 of 1,647 people in this role paid at least $25,000in 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 Department of Social Services is $54,176, 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
Case Worker III is held in 6 South Carolina departments. In Department of Social Services, the median of $70,890 ranks #1 of 6.
Median total compensation for the Case Worker III role in other South Carolinadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Record list
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Case Worker III/Department of Social Services
Mable Simmons is a Case Worker III at Department of Social Services. 2026 total compensation came to $85,175.
Case Worker III/Department of Social Services
Monicke Foster is a Case Worker III at Department of Social Services. 2026 total compensation came to $84,550.