Academic Analysis
Georgia State

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

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Legal13$106,121$146,687
Executive & Leadership702$88,914$108,997
Information Technology306$58,583$57,095
Engineering & Technical18$54,316$56,137
Athletics76$54,207$78,916
Library81$50,918$49,084
Teaching Faculty2.9K$49,261$59,162
Research287$48,829$50,349
Affiliate & Status148$38,542$49,945
Public Safety281$34,434$36,547
Administrative & Professional3.2K$31,006$30,972
Healthcare38$26,220$30,231
Facilities & Trades792$25,187$23,958
Students & Trainees6.7K$4,000$7,687
Other14$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.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor260$58,258$74,796$85,882$100,376
associate professor436$69,950$83,368$96,986$106,094
professor252$98,278$131,094$150,103$182,588
lecturer131$47,470$53,107$53,075$60,001

Top earners

  1. 1
    Mark Becker
    PRESIDENT
    $2,806,507
  2. 2
    Viswanathan Kumar
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $700,834
  3. 3$575,000
  4. 4$550,800
  5. 5$503,291
  6. 6
    Vince D Calhoun
    DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
    $501,686
  7. 7
    Vikas Agarwal
    PROFESSOR
    $499,823
  8. 8
    Arun Rai
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $497,605
  9. 9
    Michael Paul Eriksen
    CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
    $467,528
  10. 10
    Timothy M Renick
    SR. VICE PRESIDENT
    $453,640
  11. 11
    Balasubramaniam Ramesh
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $452,374
  12. 12$451,992
  13. 13$448,227
  14. 14
    Risa Ileen Palm
    CHIEF LEGAL AFFAIRS OFFICER
    $447,735
  15. 15
    Todd J Maurer
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $437,688
  16. 16
    Wendy F Hensel
    CHIEF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS OFFICER
    $430,075
  17. 17
    Minghui Zou
    ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
    $425,846
  18. 18
    Omesh Kini
    DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
    $423,370
  19. 19$420,012
  20. 20
    Douglas Wilder Stevens
    DIRECTOR COLL/DIV/SCH AC
    $415,050
  21. 21$401,289
  22. 22
    Jerry Joseph Rackliffe
    SENIOR CHIEF BUSN/FIN OFFICER
    $390,507
  23. 23
    Jian-Dong Li
    DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
    $387,377
  24. 24
    Stephen Hammond Shore
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $383,564
  25. 25$375,517

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