Georgia school social worker salaries by employer, 2025

Depending on the district, average total pay runs from $56,349 to $102,817.

That's the range across the 16 districts with at least 10 full-year school social workers. School social workers at Atlanta Public Schools earn 1.8 times what those at Richmond County School District do.¹

DeKalb County School District employs the most school social workers.

80 people held a school social worker title there during the year, ahead of Atlanta Public Schools (79) and Gwinnett County Public Schools (65). Across Georgia, 915 worked for 133 districts.¹

Pay here is total pay.

Open Georgia's file has one pay figure per person: everything the employer paid them in the year, so supplements and any overtime are in it and base pay can't be shown on its own.¹

Who worked the full year is our best estimate.

The file has no hours or start dates. We count someone as full-year when the same employer also paid them the year before, they were paid at least 90% as much, and at least a full year at the federal minimum wage. Two people with the same name at one employer can't be told apart, so neither counts.¹

The state's file isn't audited.

The Department of Audits and Accounts compiles the file from what each employer reports and says it has not audited or reviewed it.¹

There are no official pay ranges in the state file.

It lists each person's title and pay, not the employer's pay scale, so these pages show what school social workers were paid, not what a job can pay.

Titles were sorted by hand.

We count the state's School Social Worker title and its special education and psychoeducational social worker titles; social worker assistants aren't counted.