Academic Analysis
Georgia Southern

Salary analytics

Georgia Southern University compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.

6.5K
Employees
$11,542
Median salary
$33,888
Average salary
$91,163
90th percentile
$220,373,860
Total payroll
$3,660,584
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Legal5$121,000$114,553
Other7$94,200$74,703
Teaching Faculty1.2K$82,699$76,148
Executive & Leadership424$78,101$90,639
Healthcare25$71,324$74,173
Information Technology86$67,424$60,883
Library34$62,400$57,021
Public Safety54$57,670$57,802
Athletics100$55,480$76,304
Engineering & Technical18$55,122$59,461
Research13$48,727$62,247
Administrative & Professional873$43,114$39,956
Facilities & Trades517$33,349$30,090
Affiliate & Status12$6,781$5,162
Students & Trainees3.2K$3,212$5,902

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2025. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor156$79,839$90,771$97,425$101,491
associate professor256$84,453$97,482$102,154$110,150
professor253$95,363$112,385$116,542$129,507
lecturer50$63,918$73,894$73,805$81,841

Top earners

  1. 1
    Clay C Helton
    HEAD COACH
    $881,181
  2. 2$500,148
  3. 3$347,833
  4. 4$337,000
  5. 5
    Christopher A Davis
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $327,258
  6. 6
    David Weindorf
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $320,833
  7. 7
    Alejandra C Sosa Pieroni
    EXEC CHIEF ENROLLMT SRVS OFFR
    $318,456
  8. 8
    Ronald Stalnaker
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
    $317,423
  9. 9$302,151
  10. 10
    Diana M Cone
    VICE PROVOST
    $291,300
  11. 11
    Trip Clayton Addison
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
    $260,749
  12. 12$260,166
  13. 13
    David Owen
    DEAN AC
    $258,000
  14. 14$254,000
  15. 15
    Justin J Janney
    ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
    $252,075
  16. 16$251,285
  17. 17$250,000
  18. 18
    Angela Sellers Gerguis
    CHIEF HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR
    $235,000
  19. 19$233,000
  20. 20
    Stephanie Hairston Johnson
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $229,709
  21. 21$223,000
  22. 22
    Joshua Drake Frederick
    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
    $221,710
  23. 23
    Mark D Hanna
    PROFESSOR
    $221,647
  24. 24
    Maura Conley Copeland
    CHIEF LEGAL AFFAIRS OFFICER
    $220,700
  25. 25
    Patrick Justin Lancaster
    CLINICAL PHYSICIAN AD
    $220,000