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Salary analytics
Georgia State University compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.
16K
Employees
$10,179
Median salary
$29,044
Average salary
$76,674
90th percentile
$457,381,092
Total payroll
$7,163,666
Total travel
Salary by category
| Category | People | Median | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal | 11 | $109,160 | $158,387 |
| Executive & Leadership | 705 | $83,066 | $101,498 |
| Information Technology | 310 | $56,595 | $56,314 |
| Engineering & Technical | 16 | $52,834 | $51,262 |
| Library | 83 | $50,000 | $45,845 |
| Athletics | 85 | $48,960 | $65,436 |
| Teaching Faculty | 2.8K | $47,636 | $57,606 |
| Research | 298 | $47,476 | $44,508 |
| Affiliate & Status | 122 | $41,037 | $53,265 |
| Public Safety | 272 | $31,201 | $35,131 |
| Administrative & Professional | 3.3K | $26,366 | $28,670 |
| Facilities & Trades | 866 | $24,200 | $22,587 |
| Healthcare | 20 | $20,879 | $26,920 |
| Students & Trainees | 6.8K | $4,000 | $7,348 |
| Other | 42 | $0 | $3,514 |
Salary distribution by faculty rank
Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2019. 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 | 282 | $55,409 | $69,286 | $84,597 | $98,165 |
| associate professor | 433 | $66,690 | $81,305 | $93,534 | $104,424 |
| professor | 249 | $94,306 | $123,978 | $141,542 | $167,243 |
| lecturer | 140 | $43,488 | $50,114 | $48,570 | $56,004 |
Top earners
- 1Viswanathan Kumar$965,234REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 2Mark Becker$606,253PRESIDENT
- 3$540,000
- 4Nathan Bennett$491,023ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
- 5Arun Rai$488,049REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 6Vikas Agarwal$475,259PROFESSOR
- 7Ajay Subramanian$442,392DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 8Timothy M Renick$440,000SR. VICE PRESIDENT
- 9Lars Mathiassen$436,409PROFESSOR
- 10Risa Ileen Palm$434,679CHIEF LEGAL AFFAIRS OFFICER
- 11Ronald Eugene Hunter$413,674COACH
- 12Minghui Zou$411,016ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
- 13Binghe Wang$410,498REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 14Richard Douglas Phillips$409,918DEAN AC
- 15Todd J Maurer$404,614ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
- 16Glenn William Harrison$401,009PROFESSOR
- 17Balasubramaniam Ramesh$398,364DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 18Salih Tamer Cavusgil$393,863PROFESSOR
- 19Douglas Wilder Stevens$390,000DIRECTOR COLL/DIV/SCH AC
- 20Jian-Dong Li$378,432DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
- 21Jerry Joseph Rackliffe$373,226SENIOR CHIEF BUSN/FIN OFFICER
- 22Michael Paul Eriksen$369,479CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
- 23Stephen Hammond Shore$365,595PROFESSOR
- 24James C Cox$358,502PROFESSOR
- 25Galen R Sevcik$351,584PROFESSOR
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