Academic Analysis
Georgia Southern

Salary analytics

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

7K
Employees
$9,688
Median salary
$30,215
Average salary
$84,099
90th percentile
$212,171,839
Total payroll
$1,979,200
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Research8$88,737$94,673
Legal4$87,407$104,930
Other3$79,950$110,127
Executive & Leadership389$77,890$89,192
Teaching Faculty1.3K$75,343$70,271
Information Technology99$57,302$50,439
Engineering & Technical19$53,307$58,503
Athletics94$51,119$60,084
Library38$49,346$47,673
Public Safety64$46,716$41,590
Healthcare30$44,391$54,405
Administrative & Professional963$38,707$36,452
Facilities & Trades579$28,914$25,784
Affiliate & Status8$4,596$4,746
Students & Trainees3.4K$2,599$4,625

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2022. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor191$72,773$81,870$85,634$93,281
associate professor292$77,403$89,014$94,934$105,176
professor257$89,749$103,409$107,478$119,844
lecturer100$57,370$66,775$66,230$71,739

Top earners

  1. 1
    Chad K Lunsford
    TEMPORARY PROFESSIONAL
    $708,505
  2. 2
    Clay C Helton
    HEAD COACH
    $464,571
  3. 3$450,204
  4. 4
    Jared Scott Benko
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $343,041
  5. 5$311,200
  6. 6$295,851
  7. 7
    Diana M Cone
    VICE PROVOST
    $268,700
  8. 8$245,000
  9. 9$241,921
  10. 10
    Trip Clayton Addison
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
    $238,149
  11. 11
    Brian A Burg
    HEAD COACH
    $235,000
  12. 12$231,045
  13. 13
    Ronald Stalnaker
    CHIEF INFORMATION (IT) OFFICER
    $220,356
  14. 14
    Gerard Burke
    PROFESSOR
    $220,237
  15. 15
    Patrick Justin Lancaster
    CLINICAL PHYSICIAN AD
    $215,400
  16. 16
    Scot A Lingrell
    CHIEF ENROLLMENT SVCS OFFICER
    $215,200
  17. 17
    Mark D Hanna
    PROFESSOR
    $213,308
  18. 18
    Janie Shay Little
    CHIEF STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICER
    $210,400
  19. 19
    Yoris Audiyanto Au
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $207,135
  20. 20$206,220
  21. 21$205,000
  22. 22
    John R Kraft
    ASSOC/ASST DEAN AC
    $202,000
  23. 23$199,057
  24. 24
    Robert L Whitaker
    ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
    $194,910
  25. 25$194,543