Healthcare Social Workers in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,819
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$12,601
20.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,519
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
$62,420
Kept after tax
$49,819
Worth in national money
$51,519
State rank
36
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for healthcare social workers is on the low side in Georgia. The middle earner gets $62,420. That is 36 of 51 states, and about 8.04% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Georgia, this sits in the middle: 203 of 492 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Georgia does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $62,420 you keep $49,819, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $51,519 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $64,910, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For healthcare social workers, Georgia sits in the lower band at $62,420, ranking 36 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 8.04%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Healthcare social workers ranks 203 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.
- After federal, FICA and Georgia income tax, retained pay for healthcare social workers on $62,420 is $49,819. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $51,519 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 $64,910 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Healthcare Social Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,260 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,420 |
| Top tenth earn over | $86,990 |
| This salary | $62,420 |
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 | $49,819 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,334 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,337 |
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 | $59,289 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,826 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of healthcare social workers in Georgia earn under $62,420 and half over. The published range runs $43,260 at the tenth percentile to $86,990 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Georgia the take-home figure of $49,819, from $62,420, 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 203 of 492 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $51,519, the adjusted value of that $62,420 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 203 of 492 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for healthcare social workers in Georgia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $43,260 to $86,990; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for Georgia is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $49,819 from $62,420. 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 203 of 492 locally.
- This $51,519 adjusted figure, worked from $62,420, 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 203 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 203 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $64,910, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $43,260 and the top tenth $86,990, 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 $51,519 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 $49,819 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $64,910. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($43,260 to $86,990) 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 $51,519 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 $49,819 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.