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	15.6×	19.5×	39.2×	19.5×
FY2024	17.0×	18.7×	37.6×	20.8×
FY2023	15.9×	18.9×	36.5×	18.9×
FY2022	17.0×	18.2×	39.2×	19.2×
FY2021	13.0×	13.6×	38.5×	20.1×
FY2020	14.3×	16.1×	34.6×	21.8×
FY2019	17.9×	17.2×	35.7×	21.2×
FY2018	16.2×	12.8×	35.2×	21.4×
FY2017	10.7×	13.7×	35.0×	21.0×
FY2016	16.7×	14.4×	31.0×	21.3×
FY2015	13.5×	13.9×	38.4×	27.1×

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.