2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education

Albany, GA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 400.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 25-2011
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

Drag the marker, or type a figure
$62,680 · 50th
$27,76010th
$34,74025th
$62,68050th
$79,70075th
$98,48090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Albany earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$62,680 in Albany buys what $71,500 buys across the country as a whole.

Albany's regional price parity is 87.7 — well below the national average — the nominal figure understates local buying power considerably. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Georgia

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Albany
Albany This page$62,680$71,50087.7
Brunswick$58,000$66,10087.7−7.5%
Hinesville$49,690$52,90093.9−26.0%
Dalton$46,090$51,30089.8−28.2%
Gainesville$45,140$46,60096.8−34.8%
Savannah$44,980$47,20095.2−33.9%
Warner Robins$44,500$47,40093.8−33.6%
Rome$41,360$45,90090.2−35.8%

Price parity and difference against Albany are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

20k40k60k80k 2022202320242025
Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 134.2% over the four years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 112.9% — pay has outrun prices since 2022. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
400 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 25-2011, Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education. Mapped to our taxonomy as preschool-teachers-except-special-education.

Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.