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Salary analytics
Georgia State University compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.
15K
Employees
$10,315
Median salary
$28,523
Average salary
$74,655
90th percentile
$441,219,202
Total payroll
$6,806,622
Total travel
Salary by category
| Category | People | Median | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal | 10 | $102,150 | $125,179 |
| Executive & Leadership | 663 | $84,000 | $100,312 |
| Engineering & Technical | 15 | $56,238 | $57,147 |
| Information Technology | 360 | $53,113 | $49,324 |
| Athletics | 77 | $51,500 | $74,491 |
| Library | 86 | $45,979 | $45,906 |
| Teaching Faculty | 2.9K | $45,813 | $56,148 |
| Research | 238 | $44,361 | $46,550 |
| Public Safety | 261 | $38,660 | $38,298 |
| Affiliate & Status | 146 | $30,493 | $40,346 |
| Facilities & Trades | 695 | $25,671 | $25,282 |
| Healthcare | 41 | $24,961 | $33,113 |
| Other | 11 | $18,831 | $25,600 |
| Administrative & Professional | 3.6K | $16,000 | $24,721 |
| Students & Trainees | 6.4K | $4,000 | $7,624 |
Salary distribution by faculty rank
Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2017. 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 | 340 | $55,434 | $70,960 | $85,225 | $96,666 |
| associate professor | 432 | $66,769 | $79,791 | $94,980 | $108,135 |
| professor | 231 | $91,471 | $120,033 | $139,277 | $170,541 |
| lecturer | 130 | $42,632 | $50,163 | $52,301 | $58,142 |
Top earners
- 1Viswanathan Kumar$984,580REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 2Ronald Eugene Hunter$598,250COACH
- 3Mark Becker$578,640PRESIDENT
- 4Trent Gaylord Miles$505,430COACH
- 5Arun Rai$466,111REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 6Omesh Kini$443,200DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
- 7Nathan Bennett$441,941ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
- 8Vikas Agarwal$428,191PROFESSOR
- 9Risa Ileen Palm$413,751CHIEF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS OFFICER
- 10Richard Douglas Phillips$400,061DEAN AC
- 11Minghui Zou$391,301ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
- 12Salih Tamer Cavusgil$385,551PROFESSOR
- 13Balasubramaniam Ramesh$375,515ACTING DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 14Todd J Maurer$372,627ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
- 15Lars Mathiassen$365,694PROFESSOR
- 16Jerry Joseph Rackliffe$360,500SENIOR CHIEF BUSN/FIN OFFICER
- 17Glenn William Harrison$359,653PROFESSOR
- 18Jian-Dong Li$357,731DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
- 19Timothy M Renick$350,000VICE PROVOST
- 20James C Cox$347,443PROFESSOR
- 21Stephen Hammond Shore$339,131PROFESSOR
- 22Ajay Subramanian$339,117PROFESSOR
- 23Michael Paul Eriksen$338,522DEAN AC
- 24Naveen Donthu$330,674DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 25Robert D Morris$327,054REGENTS 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