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Cross-institution comparison

Median compensation by fiscal year across all covered institutions, from the same Open Georgia salary source, so the figures are directly comparable. Showing teaching faculty — everyone who taught a section that year.

Georgia Tech
FY2025 median (faculty)$150,000
People31K
Course sections549K
UGA
FY2025 median (faculty)$121,953
People46K
Course sections483K
Georgia State
FY2025 median (faculty)$80,860
People25K
Course sections290K
Kennesaw State
FY2025 median (faculty)$78,784
People15K
Course sections165K
Median teaching-faculty salary by institution
Fiscal yearGeorgia TechUGAGeorgia StateKennesaw State
FY2025$150,000$121,953$80,860$78,784
FY2024$145,060$118,262$77,684$75,599
FY2023$143,695$114,158$75,401$70,846
FY2022$135,028$113,743$72,200$68,236
FY2021$128,474$107,388$69,125$63,081
FY2020$123,188$106,837$62,606$61,636
FY2019$120,958$105,043$60,066$58,899
FY2018$119,795$97,035$59,800$56,817
FY2017$120,927$100,376$57,462$51,780
FY2016$118,015$94,154$54,644$51,140
FY2015$115,321$90,000$69,447$48,475
$40.4K$63.9K$87.5K$111K$134.6K$158.1KFY2015FY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Georgia TechUGAGeorgia StateKennesaw State

More cross-institution analyses

Salary distributions by rank

Histograms of assistant/associate/full professor pay, by discipline.

Salary compression

How far full-professor pay sits above assistant pay.

Raises for continuing staff

Median year-over-year raise for people who stayed.

Recent hires vs. incumbents

Where recent hires' pay lands vs. incumbents (uses first full year).

Pay dispersion

Top-decile ÷ bottom-decile salary spread.

Leadership vs. faculty pay

Administrator median vs. professor median over time.

Teaching load vs. pay

Median salary by weekly contact hours taught.

Travel spending

Reimbursed employee travel by institution and year.

Facility utilization

How intensively classrooms are used, by term / college / subject.

Faculty pay vs. tuition

What schools charge students vs. pay faculty.

Grants vs. compensation

Does federal grant-getting track higher faculty pay?

Citations & compensation

Citations and h-index against salary — field-relative and indicative.

Teaching load & class size

Students taught per instructor and salary per student taught.

Career trajectory & promotion

Years between ranks and the salary jump at promotion.

Research intensity by discipline

Which fields carry the grants and citations (within-field).

Federal R&D by agency

Authoritative NSF HERD totals — Defense vs. NIH funding profiles.

Faculty composition

The tenure-track vs. contingent shift over time (structural context).

Institutional funding context

Total payroll and affiliated-foundation wealth behind the salary numbers.

Data quality & coverage

Match rates, enrichment coverage, and the normalization log.

Teaching faculty = everyone matched to a taught section that fiscal year (Fall maps to the next FY); each person's full-year salary is counted once. Instructors not found in the salary data are excluded, so coverage varies by institution — see each institution's “About this data.” Per-department teaching salary is on each institution’s department page.