Academic Analysis
Georgia State

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

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Legal9$130,985$132,909
Executive & Leadership862$100,000$115,703
Information Technology287$72,837$69,680
Teaching Faculty2.6K$69,680$72,054
Research254$59,241$61,884
Library79$58,760$56,571
Athletics82$57,764$82,469
Engineering & Technical18$55,234$53,377
Public Safety270$43,077$49,115
Administrative & Professional2.9K$38,971$38,502
Facilities & Trades628$34,244$31,227
Healthcare35$20,848$23,284
Students & Trainees6.3K$4,500$9,134
Affiliate & Status81$3,281$14,863
Other5$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.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor251$77,569$92,061$105,067$122,370
associate professor331$79,848$94,142$107,804$117,674
professor327$99,815$130,505$150,348$180,500
lecturer115$57,318$68,520$67,316$79,984

Top earners

  1. 1$860,000
  2. 2$853,000
  3. 3
    Arun Rai
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $572,750
  4. 4
    Vince D Calhoun
    DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
    $540,086
  5. 5$505,000
  6. 6
    Vikas Agarwal
    DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
    $498,068
  7. 7$475,000
  8. 8
    Balasubramaniam Ramesh
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $473,918
  9. 9$472,000
  10. 10
    Omesh Kini
    DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
    $471,150
  11. 11
    Lewis Jared Abramson
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $468,430
  12. 12
    Todd J Maurer
    ASSOC/ASST DEAN AD
    $466,417
  13. 13$443,024
  14. 14
    Brian Frank Jennings
    ASSOC/ASST DEAN AD
    $438,650
  15. 15
    Charles Godwin Cobb
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $430,000
  16. 16
    Stephen Hammond Shore
    DIRECTOR COLL/DIV/SCH AC
    $423,663
  17. 17
    Yusen Xia
    DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
    $422,855
  18. 18$418,566
  19. 19$414,717
  20. 20
    Peter Ronald Demerjian
    DIRECTOR COLL/DIV/SCH AC
    $405,000
  21. 21
    Baozhong Yang
    PROFESSOR
    $401,000
  22. 22
    Jian-Dong Li
    DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
    $398,721
  23. 23
    Glenn William Harrison
    DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
    $397,300
  24. 24
    Cheryl Denise Harrelson
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
    $392,244
  25. 25
    Salih Tamer Cavusgil
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $392,113

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)

  1. 1110K citesh 150
  2. 234K citesh 95
  3. 330K citesh 80
  4. 419K citesh 79
  5. 526K citesh 78
  6. 621K citesh 75
  7. 723K citesh 74
  8. 819K citesh 73
  9. 921K citesh 72
  10. 1018K citesh 67