Academic Analysis
Georgia State

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

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Legal10$102,150$125,179
Executive & Leadership663$84,000$100,312
Engineering & Technical15$56,238$57,147
Information Technology360$53,113$49,324
Athletics77$51,500$74,491
Library86$45,979$45,906
Teaching Faculty2.9K$45,813$56,148
Research238$44,361$46,550
Public Safety261$38,660$38,298
Affiliate & Status146$30,493$40,346
Facilities & Trades695$25,671$25,282
Healthcare41$24,961$33,113
Other11$18,831$25,600
Administrative & Professional3.6K$16,000$24,721
Students & Trainees6.4K$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.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor340$55,434$70,960$85,225$96,666
associate professor432$66,769$79,791$94,980$108,135
professor231$91,471$120,033$139,277$170,541
lecturer130$42,632$50,163$52,301$58,142

Top earners

  1. 1
    Viswanathan Kumar
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $984,580
  2. 2$598,250
  3. 3
    Mark Becker
    PRESIDENT
    $578,640
  4. 4$505,430
  5. 5
    Arun Rai
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $466,111
  6. 6
    Omesh Kini
    DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
    $443,200
  7. 7
    Nathan Bennett
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $441,941
  8. 8
    Vikas Agarwal
    PROFESSOR
    $428,191
  9. 9
    Risa Ileen Palm
    CHIEF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS OFFICER
    $413,751
  10. 10$400,061
  11. 11
    Minghui Zou
    ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
    $391,301
  12. 12$385,551
  13. 13
    Balasubramaniam Ramesh
    ACTING DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $375,515
  14. 14
    Todd J Maurer
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $372,627
  15. 15$365,694
  16. 16
    Jerry Joseph Rackliffe
    SENIOR CHIEF BUSN/FIN OFFICER
    $360,500
  17. 17$359,653
  18. 18
    Jian-Dong Li
    DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
    $357,731
  19. 19
    Timothy M Renick
    VICE PROVOST
    $350,000
  20. 20
    James C Cox
    PROFESSOR
    $347,443
  21. 21$339,131
  22. 22$339,117
  23. 23$338,522
  24. 24
    Naveen Donthu
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $330,674
  25. 25
    Robert D Morris
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $327,054

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