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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
| Category | People | Median | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal | 10 | $103,334 | $127,612 |
| Executive & Leadership | 693 | $84,539 | $103,664 |
| Information Technology | 322 | $56,073 | $54,529 |
| Engineering & Technical | 18 | $52,235 | $49,374 |
| Library | 77 | $48,569 | $46,610 |
| Athletics | 77 | $48,426 | $71,793 |
| Teaching Faculty | 2.8K | $47,522 | $56,822 |
| Research | 254 | $47,476 | $47,738 |
| Other | 11 | $44,570 | $34,151 |
| Public Safety | 266 | $32,262 | $35,527 |
| Administrative & Professional | 3.2K | $27,079 | $28,634 |
| Facilities & Trades | 836 | $25,098 | $23,979 |
| Healthcare | 21 | $22,016 | $31,017 |
| Affiliate & Status | 113 | $21,358 | $37,687 |
| Students & Trainees | 6.9K | $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.
| Rank | People | 25th pct | Median | Mean | 75th pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| assistant professor | 300 | $54,524 | $69,895 | $85,526 | $96,096 |
| associate professor | 449 | $66,330 | $80,847 | $93,903 | $105,489 |
| professor | 244 | $91,445 | $122,521 | $138,543 | $171,491 |
| lecturer | 127 | $43,982 | $49,181 | $51,481 | $56,797 |
Top earners
- 1Viswanathan Kumar$886,964REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 2Mark Becker$594,952PRESIDENT
- 3Ronald Eugene Hunter$551,565COACH
- 4$529,683
- 5Arun Rai$512,183REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 6Nathan Bennett$490,910ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
- 7Ajay Subramanian$466,944DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 8Omesh Kini$454,250DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
- 9Risa Ileen Palm$430,301CHIEF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS OFFICER
- 10Vikas Agarwal$427,109PROFESSOR
- 11Richard Douglas Phillips$407,919DEAN AC
- 12Todd J Maurer$407,089ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
- 13Minghui Zou$403,947ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
- 14Timothy M Renick$398,500SR. VICE PRESIDENT
- 15Salih Tamer Cavusgil$390,954PROFESSOR
- 16Glenn William Harrison$374,981PROFESSOR
- 17Jian-Dong Li$372,085DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
- 18Steven J Kaminshine$369,475DEAN AC
- 19Jerry Joseph Rackliffe$367,710SENIOR CHIEF BUSN/FIN OFFICER
- 20Balasubramaniam Ramesh$357,838DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 21Lars Mathiassen$356,235PROFESSOR
- 22James C Cox$354,352PROFESSOR
- 23Michael Paul Eriksen$345,969DEAN AC
- 24Charles Godwin Cobb$337,318CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
- 25Harley E Ryan$333,877ASSOCIATE 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