2025 Salary Guide Update

Each year, ACCG produces a Salary Guide for County Officials to assist counties in calculating salaries of certain county officials, as well as state officials who receive supplements to their salaries from the county. The 2025 Guide, which applies to salary calculations as of January 1, 2025, is in process and should be available by the end of June. For the new budget year, the state awarded a 4% COLA for state employees, but capped that COLA at $3,000 (a cap that would apply to state employees making $75,000 or more). Many county officials (county commissioners, constitutional officers, magistrate judges, and most coroners) generally are entitled to the same COLAs as received by state employees. ACCG is working to determine how this year’s COLA should apply to those county officials, in consultation with the Constitutional Officers Association of Georgia (COAG) as well as the Magistrate Judges Council. It is anticipated that the new Salary Guide will be published by the end of June.