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Salary analytics
Georgia State University compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.
14K
Employees
$14,208
Median salary
$37,544
Average salary
$96,379
90th percentile
$544,047,787
Total payroll
$8,238,271
Total travel
Salary by category
| Category | People | Median | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal | 9 | $130,985 | $132,909 |
| Executive & Leadership | 862 | $100,000 | $115,703 |
| Information Technology | 287 | $72,837 | $69,680 |
| Teaching Faculty | 2.6K | $69,680 | $72,054 |
| Research | 254 | $59,241 | $61,884 |
| Library | 79 | $58,760 | $56,571 |
| Athletics | 82 | $57,764 | $82,469 |
| Engineering & Technical | 18 | $55,234 | $53,377 |
| Public Safety | 270 | $43,077 | $49,115 |
| Administrative & Professional | 2.9K | $38,971 | $38,502 |
| Facilities & Trades | 628 | $34,244 | $31,227 |
| Healthcare | 35 | $20,848 | $23,284 |
| Students & Trainees | 6.3K | $4,500 | $9,134 |
| Affiliate & Status | 81 | $3,281 | $14,863 |
| Other | 5 | $0 | $4,810 |
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.
| Rank | People | 25th pct | Median | Mean | 75th pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| assistant professor | 251 | $77,569 | $92,061 | $105,067 | $122,370 |
| associate professor | 331 | $79,848 | $94,142 | $107,804 | $117,674 |
| professor | 327 | $99,815 | $130,505 | $150,348 | $180,500 |
| lecturer | 115 | $57,318 | $68,520 | $67,316 | $79,984 |
Top earners
- 1Malworsth Brian Blake$860,000PRESIDENT
- 2Antonio D Mcgee$853,000COACH
- 3Arun Rai$572,750REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 4Vince D Calhoun$540,086DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
- 5Jonas Louis Hayes$505,000COACH
- 6Vikas Agarwal$498,068DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
- 7Nicolle Parsons-Pollard$475,000PROVOST
- 8Balasubramaniam Ramesh$473,918DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 9Richard Douglas Phillips$472,000DEAN AC
- 10Omesh Kini$471,150DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
- 11Lewis Jared Abramson$468,430VICE PRESIDENT
- 12Todd J Maurer$466,417ASSOC/ASST DEAN AD
- 13Nathan Bennett$443,024PROFESSOR
- 14Brian Frank Jennings$438,650ASSOC/ASST DEAN AD
- 15Charles Godwin Cobb$430,000CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
- 16Stephen Hammond Shore$423,663DIRECTOR COLL/DIV/SCH AC
- 17Yusen Xia$422,855DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
- 18Lars Mathiassen$418,566PROFESSOR
- 19Likoebe Mohau Maruping$414,717PROFESSOR
- 20Peter Ronald Demerjian$405,000DIRECTOR COLL/DIV/SCH AC
- 21Baozhong Yang$401,000PROFESSOR
- 22Jian-Dong Li$398,721DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
- 23Glenn William Harrison$397,300DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
- 24Cheryl Denise Harrelson$392,244CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
- 25Salih Tamer Cavusgil$392,113REGENTS PROFESSOR
Research output
Georgia State faculty matched to an OpenAlex scholarly profile (all-time, field-unadjusted; a research-active subset). See the cross-institution citations & compensation and research intensity by discipline.
1.5K
Matched profiles
2.1M
Total citations
75K
Total works
5
Median h-index
48%
With ORCID
Highest h-index (field-unadjusted)
- 1110K citesh 150
- 234K citesh 95
- 330K citesh 80
- 419K citesh 79
- 526K citesh 78
- 621K citesh 75
- 723K citesh 74
- 819K citesh 73
- 921K citesh 72
- 1018K citesh 67