Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,605
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$8,935
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,923
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$47,540
Kept after tax
$38,605
Worth in national money
$39,923
State rank
45
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Georgia is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $47,540, ranking 45 of 50 states — about 22.75% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Georgia, this sits in the middle: 318 of 492 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $47,540 you keep $38,605 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $39,923 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $46,740.
- Georgia ranks 45 of 50 for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors, with a median of $47,540 — about 22.75% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors ranks 318 of 492 occupations in Georgia by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Retained pay in Georgia is $38,605 after the full tax stack, from $47,540. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $39,923 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $46,740 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,460 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,540 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,880 |
| This salary | $47,540 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Georgia | $38,605 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,378 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,629 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $45,333 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,971 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Georgia earn less than $47,540. The published range is $34,460 up to $58,880, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Georgia the take-home figure of $38,605, from $47,540, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 318 of 492 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $39,923, the adjusted value of that $47,540 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Georgia. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 318 of 492 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors in Georgia the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,460 to $58,880. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Georgia is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $38,605 from $47,540. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 318 of 492 locally.
- This $39,923 adjusted figure, worked from $47,540, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 318 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 318 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $34,460 and the top tenth $58,880, so most people doing this work in Georgia sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Georgia sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $39,923 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Georgia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $38,605 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,460 to $58,880) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Georgia rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Georgia's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $39,923 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $38,605 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.