School Bus Monitors in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$25,485
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$4,645
15.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$26,355
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
$30,130
Kept after tax
$25,485
Worth in national money
$26,355
State rank
38
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Georgia pays school bus monitors a middle wage of $30,130, 38 of 50 states and about 14.16% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Georgia this is lower-paid work. Of 492 occupations the state publishes figures for, school bus monitors ranks 469. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $30,130 you keep $25,485 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $26,355 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $28,830.
- Georgia's $30,130 median for school bus monitors places it 38 of 50 states, about 14.16% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation Georgia reports, school bus monitors ranks 469 of 492, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Retained pay in Georgia is $25,485 after the full tax stack, from $30,130. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $26,355 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $28,830 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: School Bus Monitors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $17,590 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $30,130 |
| Top tenth earn over | $37,380 |
| This salary | $30,130 |
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 | $25,485 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $26,389 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$802 |
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 | $29,004 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$970 |
| 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 school bus monitors in Georgia earn under $30,130 and half over. The published range runs $17,590 at the tenth percentile to $37,380 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $25,485 take-home in Georgia comes from $30,130. 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 469 of 492.
- Two cautions on $26,355, the adjusted value of that $30,130 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 469 of 492 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for school bus monitors in Georgia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $17,590 to $37,380; 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.
- Retained pay of $25,485, from $30,130, 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 469 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 38 of 50 for it.
- This $26,355 adjusted figure, worked from $30,130, 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 469 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 469 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $28,830, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $17,590 and the top tenth $37,380, so most people doing this work in Georgia sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $26,355.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Georgia's own levy, $25,485 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $28,830. 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 ($17,590 to $37,380) 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 $26,355 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 $25,485 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.