Academic Analysis
Georgia State

Salary analytics

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

16K
Employees
$10,428
Median salary
$28,868
Average salary
$75,707
90th percentile
$451,749,997
Total payroll
$7,205,032
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Legal10$103,334$127,612
Executive & Leadership693$84,539$103,664
Information Technology322$56,073$54,529
Engineering & Technical18$52,235$49,374
Library77$48,569$46,610
Athletics77$48,426$71,793
Teaching Faculty2.8K$47,522$56,822
Research254$47,476$47,738
Other11$44,570$34,151
Public Safety266$32,262$35,527
Administrative & Professional3.2K$27,079$28,634
Facilities & Trades836$25,098$23,979
Healthcare21$22,016$31,017
Affiliate & Status113$21,358$37,687
Students & Trainees6.9K$4,000$7,452

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2018. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor300$54,524$69,895$85,526$96,096
associate professor449$66,330$80,847$93,903$105,489
professor244$91,445$122,521$138,543$171,491
lecturer127$43,982$49,181$51,481$56,797

Top earners

  1. 1
    Viswanathan Kumar
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $886,964
  2. 2
    Mark Becker
    PRESIDENT
    $594,952
  3. 3$551,565
  4. 4$529,683
  5. 5
    Arun Rai
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $512,183
  6. 6
    Nathan Bennett
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $490,910
  7. 7
    Ajay Subramanian
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $466,944
  8. 8
    Omesh Kini
    DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
    $454,250
  9. 9
    Risa Ileen Palm
    CHIEF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS OFFICER
    $430,301
  10. 10
    Vikas Agarwal
    PROFESSOR
    $427,109
  11. 11$407,919
  12. 12
    Todd J Maurer
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $407,089
  13. 13
    Minghui Zou
    ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
    $403,947
  14. 14
    Timothy M Renick
    SR. VICE PRESIDENT
    $398,500
  15. 15$390,954
  16. 16$374,981
  17. 17
    Jian-Dong Li
    DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
    $372,085
  18. 18$369,475
  19. 19
    Jerry Joseph Rackliffe
    SENIOR CHIEF BUSN/FIN OFFICER
    $367,710
  20. 20
    Balasubramaniam Ramesh
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $357,838
  21. 21$356,235
  22. 22
    James C Cox
    PROFESSOR
    $354,352
  23. 23$345,969
  24. 24
    Charles Godwin Cobb
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $337,318
  25. 25
    Harley E Ryan
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $333,877

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