Academic Analysis
Georgia State

Salary analytics

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

14K
Employees
$12,143
Median salary
$33,972
Average salary
$88,678
90th percentile
$483,009,059
Total payroll
$2,314,607
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Legal12$106,294$113,228
Executive & Leadership723$95,200$110,816
Information Technology320$65,061$61,270
Teaching Faculty2.7K$62,700$66,401
Engineering & Technical15$60,376$57,363
Library76$58,109$54,568
Research245$52,676$53,137
Athletics91$50,978$74,758
Public Safety247$44,017$42,982
Facilities & Trades593$31,173$29,259
Healthcare39$30,106$30,436
Administrative & Professional3.1K$26,506$32,294
Affiliate & Status47$25,000$37,838
Other4$24,671$26,026
Students & Trainees6.1K$4,000$8,242

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2022. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor245$67,033$81,046$93,271$104,000
associate professor407$72,654$87,631$102,418$111,854
professor278$99,859$128,087$149,447$178,259
lecturer129$53,568$62,727$59,784$71,000

Top earners

  1. 1$744,000
  2. 2$677,879
  3. 3
    Mark Becker
    ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL AC
    $647,437
  4. 4
    Arun Rai
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $597,500
  5. 5
    Vince D Calhoun
    DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
    $547,485
  6. 6$525,000
  7. 7
    Vikas Agarwal
    PROFESSOR
    $500,190
  8. 8
    Omesh Kini
    DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
    $480,522
  9. 9$479,868
  10. 10
    Wendy F Hensel
    SR. VICE PRESIDENT
    $447,269
  11. 11$441,057
  12. 12$425,012
  13. 13
    Salih Tamer Cavusgil
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $417,060
  14. 14
    Brian Frank Jennings
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $413,200
  15. 15
    Todd J Maurer
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $410,500
  16. 16
    Charles Godwin Cobb
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $406,213
  17. 17
    Jerry Joseph Rackliffe
    SENIOR CHIEF BUSN/FIN OFFICER
    $405,000
  18. 18
    Minghui Zou
    PROFESSOR
    $400,846
  19. 19
    Jian-Dong Li
    DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
    $396,118
  20. 20
    Glenn William Harrison
    DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
    $390,899
  21. 21$388,931
  22. 22
    Balasubramaniam Ramesh
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $388,592
  23. 23
    Yusen Xia
    DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
    $383,008
  24. 24
    Denish Harshadbhai Shah
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $379,012
  25. 25
    Stephen Hammond Shore
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $367,800

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