Pay dispersion

The 90th-percentile salary divided by the 10th percentile — how many times more a top-decile earner makes than a bottom-decile one. Higher means a wider internal pay spread.

GroupAll employees Teaching faculty

90th ÷ 10th percentile salary

Fiscal year	Georgia Tech	UGA	Georgia State	Kennesaw State
FY2025	14.9×	44.6×	30.3×	27.1×
FY2024	16.4×	46.4×	34.2×	30.6×
FY2023	17.4×	47.3×	35.9×	25.6×
FY2022	20.6×	52.5×	36.0×	25.5×
FY2021	15.1×	50.6×	29.2×	28.8×
FY2020	18.7×	44.2×	32.3×	34.2×
FY2019	23.7×	75.7×	35.8×	42.0×
FY2018	22.4×	56.1×	36.4×	44.4×
FY2017	19.3×	50.5×	41.0×	47.1×
FY2016	17.4×	56.2×	42.2×	37.2×
FY2015	19.0×	50.2×	48.7×	40.9×

Georgia TechUGAGeorgia StateKennesaw State

Computed over each person’s total salary for the year. For all employees the ratio is large because the workforce includes part-time and student workers near the bottom; the teaching-faculty view is a tighter, more comparable population.