Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$24,460
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$4,310
15.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$25,295
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
$28,770
Kept after tax
$24,460
Worth in national money
$25,295
State rank
45
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Georgia. The middle earner gets $28,770. That is 45 of 51 states, and about 21.78% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 492 occupations Georgia publishes, this job lands at 479. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Here is where Georgia does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $28,770 you keep $24,460, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $25,295 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $30,150, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For teaching assistants, except postsecondary, Georgia sits in the lower band at $28,770, ranking 45 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 21.78%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Georgia, this work ranks 479 of 492 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- After federal, FICA and Georgia income tax, retained pay for teaching assistants, except postsecondary on $28,770 is $24,460. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $25,295 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 $30,150 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $21,190 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $28,770 |
| Top tenth earn over | $39,120 |
| This salary | $28,770 |
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 | $24,460 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $25,297 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$737 |
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 | $27,747 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$877 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $28,770 as a midpoint for Georgia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $21,190 and the ninetieth is $39,120 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Georgia's $24,460, worked from $28,770. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 479 of 492.
- Two cautions on $25,295, the adjusted value of that $28,770 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 479 of 492 locally.
- The Georgia median of $28,770 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $21,190 to $39,120. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Georgia take-home of $24,460, on $28,770 for work ranking 479 of 492 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 479 of 492 in the state.
- This $25,295 adjusted figure, worked from $28,770, 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 479 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 479 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 $30,150, 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 $21,190 and the top tenth $39,120, 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 $25,295 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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, $24,460 remains.
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 $30,150. 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 ($21,190 to $39,120) 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 $25,295 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 $24,460 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.