Certified Personnel Compensation (Salaries and Positions)

Average salaries, contract days, and FTE position counts for Georgia school staff by school, district, and state, 2011-2025.

Source: Governor's Office of Education and Workforce Strategy (GOEWS, formerly GOSA)
Year coverage: 2011–2025
Updated: annual
Version: 1.1.0
Schema hash: 360139ef250a

Detail levels available

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Overview

Governor's Office of Education and Workforce Strategy (GOEWS, formerly GOSA) certified-personnel compensation dataset, compiled from local school systems' Certified/Classified Personnel Information (CPI) submissions. For every Georgia public school, for each school district (all but `799` State Schools in 2024-25; see limitations), and for the state as a whole, publishes four position measures per employee group (Administrators, PK-12 Teachers, Support Personnel): the full-time-equivalent (FTE) count of certified positions and the average annual salary, average daily salary, and average contract days of those positions. A school or district has a row only for the employee groups it reports positions in. Coverage runs from the 2010-11 school year through 2024-25. This is one of three topics split from the retired certified_personnel dataset, all reading the same GOSA source: staff headcounts by certificate level, certification status, gender, employment status, and race/ethnicity live in certified_personnel_composition, and years-of-experience band headcounts live in certified_personnel_experience.

Row grain: One row per year, district_code, school_code, employee_type.

Key metric

avg_annual_salary — Average Annual Salary (currency)

The single headline value most answers want.

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Variables

Every column in the fact table. The code is the exact field name the API returns.

Column	Type	Unit	Range	Null?	Description
`year`Year	integer	—	—	no	Ending calendar year of the school year. Year 2024 = 2023-2024 school year. Derived from the bronze `LONG_SCHOOL_YEAR` column's ending year. Full description▾ Ending calendar year of the school year. Year 2024 = 2023-2024 school year. Derived from the bronze `LONG_SCHOOL_YEAR` column's ending year.
`district_code`District Code	string	—	—	yes	GOSA district code (FK to the education districts dimension): 3-digit zero-padded for standard districts, 7-digit for state/commission charter schools (present from 2012 onward). NULL for state-level aggregate rows (the bronze sentinel `ALL`). Full description▾ GOSA district code (FK to the education districts dimension): 3-digit zero-padded for standard districts, 7-digit for state/commission charter schools (present from 2012 onward). NULL for state-level aggregate rows (the bronze sentinel `ALL`). Joins districts; adds its label columns.
`school_code`School Code	string	—	—	yes	4-digit zero-padded GOSA school code (FK to the education schools dimension, composite key with district_code). NULL for district-level and state-level aggregate rows (the bronze sentinel `ALL`). Full description▾ 4-digit zero-padded GOSA school code (FK to the education schools dimension, composite key with district_code). NULL for district-level and state-level aggregate rows (the bronze sentinel `ALL`). Joins schools; adds its label columns.
`employee_type`Employee Type	string	—	—	no	Which staff group the row covers: administrators, PK-12 teachers, or support personnel. Full description▾ Certified employee group this row's position and compensation figures cover. Snake_case recode of bronze EMPLOYEE_TYPE: `administrators`, `pk_12_teachers`, `support_personnel`. 3 allowed values▾ `administrators` `pk_12_teachers` `support_personnel`
`fte_positions`FTE Positions	number	count	—	no	Full-time-equivalent count of certified positions in this staff group — fractional because part-time positions count as fractions. Full description▾ Full-time-equivalent (FTE) count of certified positions for this employee group (bronze Positions/Number). An FTE-style count, so legitimately fractional — part-time positions contribute fractions of a position. This is the N behind the three salary/contract-day averages (their denominator). Do not sum school rows to rebuild district or state totals — use the published aggregate rows.
`avg_annual_salary`Average Annual Salary	number	currency	—	yes	Average annual salary (US dollars) of this staff group's certified positions. Full description▾ Average annual salary in US dollars across this entity's certified positions in the employee group (bronze Positions/Average Annual Salary). An entity-level mean: never sum across entities, and a state average is not the sum (or mean) of district averages. Equals avg_daily_salary x avg_contract_days up to the rounding of the three published figures (enforced by a quality check). 5 cells publish 0.0; the source does not say whether this means unpaid or unreported. NULL on 114 cells (2012-2025) at 7 state/commission charter districts (7820110 Odyssey Charter School every year 2016-2025; 7820120 Georgia Cyber Academy 2015, 2016 and 2018; 7820119 2014; 7820212 2012; 7820616 2017; 7830613 2017-2018; 7830619 2018-2019), where the source published about 1/100 of the same school's pay in other years at similar FTE and contract days (e.g. 7820120 PK-12 teachers $38,681.49 in 2016-17, $395.69 in 2017-18, $40,680.74 in 2018-19 on 360-393 FTE): a units error, not pay. Also NULL on 4 other cells under $5,000 that are not plausible average salaries (see limitations). Observed max: 250,831.94.
`avg_daily_salary`Average Daily Salary	number	currency	—	yes	Average daily salary (US dollars) of this staff group's certified positions. Full description▾ Average daily salary in US dollars across this entity's certified positions in the employee group (bronze Positions/Average Daily Salary). An entity-level mean: never sum across entities. Multiplied by avg_contract_days it reproduces avg_annual_salary up to the rounding of the published figures (observed max: 2,764.56). NULL wherever avg_annual_salary is masked (118 cells; see avg_annual_salary).
`avg_contract_days`Average Contract Days	number	—	—	no	Average number of contract days per year for this staff group's certified positions. Full description▾ Average number of contract days per year across this entity's certified positions in the employee group (bronze Positions/Average Contract Days). An entity-level mean: never sum across entities. Declares no `unit` (days are neither a rescaled percentage nor a currency); the [0, 366] range is enforced by an authored quality check instead (observed bronze range: [30, 260]).

Filters

Query parameters the fact endpoint accepts. Comma-separated values are OR within a parameter; multiple parameters AND together.

Parameter	Kind	Allowed values	Notes
`year`	year_exact	any value	—
`year_min`	year_range	any value	—
`year_max`	year_range	any value	—
`detail`	detail	`districtsschoolsstates`	enum-enforced, default: schools
`district_code`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`school_code`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`employee_type`	categorical	`administratorspk_12_teacherssupport_personnel`	multi-value, enum-enforced, pick one
`district_type`	dimension_attribute	7 allowed values▾ `commission_charter` `resa` `standard` `state_agency` `state_charter` `state_school` `state_special`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`school_level`	dimension_attribute	`elementarymiddlehighk12other`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`locale`	dimension_attribute	`citysuburbtownrural`	multi-value, enum-enforced

Example requests

Run these against the base URL — they return live data.

All rows (first page), schools level

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/certified_personnel_compensation"

schools data for 2025

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/certified_personnel_compensation?year=2025"

Filtered to employee_type = administrators for 2025

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/certified_personnel_compensation?year=2025&employee_type=administrators"

One district (code 644), 2025

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/certified_personnel_compensation?district_code=644&year=2025&detail=districts"

Download 2025 as CSV

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/certified_personnel_compensation?year=2025&format=csv"

Notes & limitations

NULL handling

Zero is a real, reported value.

Limitations

This source has no suppression markers in any year (2010-11 through 2024-25): every value is published and no zero is a suppressed cell. fte_positions and avg_contract_days are non-null on every row; avg_annual_salary and avg_daily_salary are NULL only on the 118 masked cells below. avg_annual_salary, avg_daily_salary, and avg_contract_days are entity-level means — never sum them across entities, and a state average is not the sum (or mean) of district averages; use the published district/state rows for aggregate analysis. avg_annual_salary is 0.0 at 5 small cells; the source does not say whether this means unpaid or unreported. At 7 state/commission charter districts (7820110 Odyssey Charter School every year 2016-2025, 7820120, 7820119, 7820212, 7820616, 7830613, 7830619) the source published average salaries about 1/100 of the same school's pay in other years, a units error: those 114 cells (2012-2025, school rows and their district rows) are NULL in avg_annual_salary and avg_daily_salary, with fte_positions and avg_contract_days kept. Four other cells under $5,000 are NULL too: none is about 1/100 of a neighbouring year, but none is a plausible average salary (daily rates $0.47-$21.05) and the source gives no reason: 7820512 support personnel in 2012 ($2,194.20 on 1 FTE; school and district rows), district 605 school 6104 support personnel in 2013 ($89.00 on 3 FTE) and district 660 school 0307 PK-12 teachers in 2023 ($4,000.00 on 1 FTE). A school or district has a row only for the employee groups it reports positions in (about one school-year in seven lacks at least one group). fte_positions is an FTE-style fractional position count (part-time positions count as fractions), and it is the N behind the three averages; do not sum school rows to rebuild district or state position totals. District rows are served where the source publishes them. For a single-school state charter (7-digit district code) whose district row the source omits, the district row is a copy of its one school row (6 charters in 2017-18, 2 in 2018-19, 29 in 2024-25); where the source does publish such a charter's district row, it equals the school row. `799` State Schools has school rows but no district row in 2024-25; its schools and the state rows are still served, and no other district row is built from school rows. State rows have NULL district_code and school_code; district rows have NULL school_code.