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Salary analytics
Georgia State University compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.
15K
Employees
$11,282
Median salary
$30,935
Average salary
$80,004
90th percentile
$477,576,761
Total payroll
$5,667,423
Total travel
Salary by category
| Category | People | Median | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal | 13 | $106,121 | $146,687 |
| Executive & Leadership | 702 | $88,914 | $108,997 |
| Information Technology | 306 | $58,583 | $57,095 |
| Engineering & Technical | 18 | $54,316 | $56,137 |
| Athletics | 76 | $54,207 | $78,916 |
| Library | 81 | $50,918 | $49,084 |
| Teaching Faculty | 2.9K | $49,261 | $59,162 |
| Research | 287 | $48,829 | $50,349 |
| Affiliate & Status | 148 | $38,542 | $49,945 |
| Public Safety | 281 | $34,434 | $36,547 |
| Administrative & Professional | 3.2K | $31,006 | $30,972 |
| Healthcare | 38 | $26,220 | $30,231 |
| Facilities & Trades | 792 | $25,187 | $23,958 |
| Students & Trainees | 6.7K | $4,000 | $7,687 |
| Other | 14 | $0 | $7,656 |
Salary distribution by faculty rank
Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2020. 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 | 260 | $58,258 | $74,796 | $85,882 | $100,376 |
| associate professor | 436 | $69,950 | $83,368 | $96,986 | $106,094 |
| professor | 252 | $98,278 | $131,094 | $150,103 | $182,588 |
| lecturer | 131 | $47,470 | $53,107 | $53,075 | $60,001 |
Top earners
- 1Mark Becker$2,806,507PRESIDENT
- 2Viswanathan Kumar$700,834REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 3$575,000
- 4$550,800
- 5Nathan Bennett$503,291PROFESSOR
- 6Vince D Calhoun$501,686DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
- 7Vikas Agarwal$499,823PROFESSOR
- 8Arun Rai$497,605REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 9Michael Paul Eriksen$467,528CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
- 10Timothy M Renick$453,640SR. VICE PRESIDENT
- 11Balasubramaniam Ramesh$452,374DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 12Lars Mathiassen$451,992PROFESSOR
- 13Ajay Subramanian$448,227PROFESSOR
- 14Risa Ileen Palm$447,735CHIEF LEGAL AFFAIRS OFFICER
- 15Todd J Maurer$437,688ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
- 16Wendy F Hensel$430,075CHIEF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS OFFICER
- 17Minghui Zou$425,846ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
- 18Omesh Kini$423,370DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
- 19Richard Douglas Phillips$420,012DEAN AC
- 20Douglas Wilder Stevens$415,050DIRECTOR COLL/DIV/SCH AC
- 21Salih Tamer Cavusgil$401,289PROFESSOR
- 22Jerry Joseph Rackliffe$390,507SENIOR CHIEF BUSN/FIN OFFICER
- 23Jian-Dong Li$387,377DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
- 24Stephen Hammond Shore$383,564DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 25Glenn William Harrison$375,517PROFESSOR
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