---
title: "Salary and benefit expenditures for Georgia public school districts (with RESA service-agency aggregates and the officia"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/education/salaries_and_benefits"
tags: ["education"]
---

# Salary and benefit expenditures for Georgia public school districts (with RESA service-agency aggregates and the officia

`GET /api/v1/education/salaries_and_benefits`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://georgiacivicdata.org`
- URL: `https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/salaries_and_benefits`
- Auth: none declared

Salary and benefit expenditures for Georgia public school districts (with RESA service-agency aggregates and the official state rollup) by staff category — teachers and paraprofessionals, school administration, and general administration — plus those salary+benefit totals as a share of four district revenue and expenditure bases. The underlying district revenue and expenditure ledgers those shares are computed against are published in the `k12_revenues` (revenue by funding source) and `k12_expenditures` (expenditure by function) topics. Published by GOSA for school years 2010-11 through 2023-24.

**Filterable categorical columns** (comma-separated values union; multiple columns AND together):
- `staff_category` — one of: `general_administration`, `school_administration`, `teachers_and_paraprofessionals`

**Detail levels available:** districts, states (default: `districts`)

**Year coverage:** 2011–2024 (14 years, no gaps)

**NULL handling:** zero is a real value.

**Source:** GOSA

## Query parameters

- `year` integer, nullable: Exact year
- `year_min` integer, nullable: Inclusive lower bound
- `year_max` integer, nullable: Inclusive upper bound
- `district_code` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of GOSA district codes (e.g. `601,602`)
- `school_code` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of GOSA school codes. Combine with `district_code` for unique school keys.
- `county_fips` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 5-digit county FIPS codes (e.g. `13121,13067`)
- `tract_geoid` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 11-digit census tract GEOIDs (e.g. `13121011100`)
- `block_group_geoid` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 12-digit census block group GEOIDs (e.g. `131210111001`)
- `demographic` string, nullable: Comma-separated demographic codes (e.g. `all,black,hispanic`)
- `detail` string, nullable: Detail level (whatever the topic publishes — e.g. schools, districts, counties, or states).
- `limit` integer, nullable: Page size
- `offset` integer: Page offset
- `columns` string, nullable: Comma-separated output columns to return (fact columns plus joined dimension attributes). Defaults to all.
- `format` 'json' | 'csv' | 'parquet': Response format: json | csv | parquet

## Response `200`

Paginated rows. JSON returns an envelope with `data` and `pagination`; CSV/Parquet return raw bytes with `X-Total-Count` header.

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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