{"main_topic":"education","sub_topic":"gosa","topic":"certified_personnel_compensation","key":"education/gosa/certified_personnel_compensation","version":"1.1.0","year_min":2011,"year_max":2025,"year_gaps":[],"update_frequency":"annual","detail_levels":["districts","schools","states"],"default_detail":"schools","path_template":"education/certified_personnel_compensation/year={year}/{detail}.parquet","grain":["year","district_code","school_code","employee_type"],"title":"Certified Personnel Compensation (Salaries and Positions)","summary":"Average salaries, contract days, and FTE position counts for Georgia school staff by school, district, and state, 2011-2025.","description":"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.","explorer":true,"source":"Governor's Office of Education and Workforce Strategy (GOEWS, formerly GOSA)","source_url":"https://goews.georgia.gov/dashboards-data-report-card/downloadable-data","endpoint":"/api/v1/education/certified_personnel_compensation","columns":[{"name":"year","type":"integer","role":"year","nullable":false,"label":"Year","short_description":"","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.","valid_values":null,"example":2024,"unit":null,"value_min":null,"value_max":null,"null_meaning":null,"key_metric_grain_contributor":false,"metric_component":null},{"name":"district_code","type":"string","role":"fk_district","nullable":true,"label":"District Code","short_description":"","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`).","valid_values":null,"example":"644","unit":null,"value_min":null,"value_max":null,"null_meaning":null,"key_metric_grain_contributor":false,"metric_component":null},{"name":"school_code","type":"string","role":"fk_school","nullable":true,"label":"School Code","short_description":"","description":"4-digit zero-padded GOSA school code (FK to the education schools dimension, composite key with district_code). 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Snake_case recode of bronze EMPLOYEE_TYPE: `administrators`, `pk_12_teachers`, `support_personnel`.","valid_values":["administrators","pk_12_teachers","support_personnel"],"example":"pk_12_teachers","unit":null,"value_min":null,"value_max":null,"null_meaning":null,"key_metric_grain_contributor":true,"metric_component":null},{"name":"fte_positions","type":"number","role":"metric","nullable":false,"label":"FTE Positions","short_description":"Full-time-equivalent count of certified positions in this staff group — fractional because part-time positions count as fractions.","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.","valid_values":null,"example":52.5,"unit":"count","value_min":null,"value_max":null,"null_meaning":null,"key_metric_grain_contributor":false,"metric_component":"denominator"},{"name":"avg_annual_salary","type":"number","role":"metric","nullable":true,"label":"Average Annual Salary","short_description":"Average annual salary (US dollars) of this staff group's certified positions.","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). 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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).","valid_values":null,"example":328.62,"unit":"currency","value_min":null,"value_max":null,"null_meaning":"Masked with avg_annual_salary on the same 118 cells (114 unit errors, 4 implausible; the daily figure is the annual one divided by contract days, so it carries the same error). No other cell is NULL.","key_metric_grain_contributor":false,"metric_component":null},{"name":"avg_contract_days","type":"number","role":"metric","nullable":false,"label":"Average Contract Days","short_description":"Average number of contract days per year for this staff group's certified positions.","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]).","valid_values":null,"example":190.0,"unit":null,"value_min":null,"value_max":null,"null_meaning":null,"key_metric_grain_contributor":false,"metric_component":null}],"key_metric":"avg_annual_salary","usage":"Star-schema fact table. Join the districts dimension on district_code; the schools dimension on district_code + school_code. Read directly with DuckDB over Parquet.","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. 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