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	Georgia Southern	West Georgia	Georgia Gwinnett	Valdosta State	Augusta
FY2025	14.9×	44.6×	30.3×	27.1×	14.2×	18.2×	51.8×	37.2×	29.4×
FY2024	16.4×	46.4×	34.2×	30.6×	16.3×	17.4×	70.5×	41.8×	31.1×
FY2023	17.4×	47.3×	35.9×	25.6×	15.7×	15.6×	81.9×	38.4×	30.1×
FY2022	20.6×	52.5×	36.0×	25.5×	15.4×	15.9×	82.3×	31.5×	30.0×
FY2021	15.1×	50.6×	29.2×	28.8×	14.0×	13.3×	61.1×	22.8×	22.8×
FY2020	18.7×	44.2×	32.3×	34.2×	16.2×	11.6×	15.3×	27.6×	18.4×
FY2019	23.7×	75.7×	35.8×	42.0×	17.2×	17.2×	20.9×	24.9×	15.6×
FY2018	22.4×	56.1×	36.4×	44.4×	20.4×	15.8×	19.6×	23.2×	16.3×
FY2017	19.3×	50.5×	41.0×	47.1×	17.6×	14.2×	19.1×	22.0×	17.1×
FY2016	17.4×	56.2×	42.2×	37.2×	19.4×	26.9×	16.3×	18.7×	20.4×
FY2015	19.0×	50.2×	48.7×	40.9×	16.7×	35.7×	20.5×	22.2×	—

Georgia TechUGAGeorgia StateKennesaw StateGeorgia SouthernWest GeorgiaGeorgia GwinnettValdosta StateAugusta

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.