Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,798
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$12,922
20.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,532
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
$63,720
Kept after tax
$50,798
Worth in national money
$52,532
State rank
22
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Georgia pays this job around $63,720 at the midpoint, 22 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 195 among 492 occupations Georgia publishes pay for.
- Here is where Georgia does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $63,720 you keep $50,798, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $52,532 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $68,410, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors the Georgia median is $63,720, ranking 22 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 195 of 492 in Georgia places educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After federal, FICA and Georgia income tax, retained pay for educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors on $63,720 is $50,798. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $52,532 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $68,410 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,040 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,720 |
| Top tenth earn over | $101,880 |
| This salary | $63,720 |
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 | $50,798 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,379 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,399 |
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 | $60,508 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,901 |
| 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 $63,720. The published range is $42,040 up to $101,880, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $50,798 take-home in Georgia comes from $63,720. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 195 of 492.
- One number stands for prices across all of Georgia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $52,532, the adjusted value of that $63,720 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 195 of 492 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors in Georgia the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $42,040 to $101,880. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $50,798, from $63,720, assumes a single Georgia filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 195 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 22 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Georgia, so $52,532 — the adjusted value of that $63,720 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 195 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $68,410 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $42,040 at the bottom tenth to $101,880 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $52,532.
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 $50,798 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Georgia is $68,410. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($42,040) and the ninetieth ($101,880) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $52,532 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 $50,798 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.