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Salary analytics
Georgia State University compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.
15K
Employees
$13,200
Median salary
$36,205
Average salary
$93,025
90th percentile
$527,439,123
Total payroll
$7,506,884
Total travel
Salary by category
| Category | People | Median | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal | 11 | $119,028 | $133,118 |
| Executive & Leadership | 849 | $96,833 | $112,289 |
| Engineering & Technical | 17 | $71,376 | $66,268 |
| Information Technology | 301 | $70,760 | $69,486 |
| Teaching Faculty | 2.6K | $67,779 | $69,574 |
| Research | 263 | $59,000 | $59,529 |
| Library | 70 | $58,629 | $56,338 |
| Athletics | 94 | $55,667 | $74,693 |
| Public Safety | 238 | $48,901 | $48,710 |
| Administrative & Professional | 3K | $35,712 | $36,403 |
| Facilities & Trades | 609 | $34,155 | $31,502 |
| Other | 2 | $32,526 | $32,526 |
| Healthcare | 39 | $21,424 | $24,216 |
| Affiliate & Status | 31 | $18,524 | $27,482 |
| Students & Trainees | 6.4K | $4,400 | $8,849 |
Salary distribution by faculty rank
Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2024. 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 | 250 | $75,143 | $89,492 | $101,192 | $119,582 |
| associate professor | 352 | $75,724 | $90,187 | $102,894 | $112,746 |
| professor | 321 | $95,675 | $123,854 | $145,473 | $176,735 |
| lecturer | 112 | $58,000 | $66,238 | $65,264 | $79,913 |
Top earners
- 1Malworsth Brian Blake$858,000PRESIDENT
- 2Arun Rai$619,500REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 3Vince D Calhoun$513,878DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
- 4Vikas Agarwal$504,848DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
- 5Jonas Louis Hayes$503,000COACH
- 6Nathan Bennett$481,788PROFESSOR
- 7$478,901
- 8Lars Mathiassen$477,819PROFESSOR
- 9Nicolle Parsons-Pollard$473,000PROVOST
- 10Richard Douglas Phillips$470,000DEAN AC
- 11Omesh Kini$468,617DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
- 12Denish Harshadbhai Shah$457,997ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- 13Todd J Maurer$448,167ASSOC/ASST DEAN AD
- 14Brian Frank Jennings$436,650ASSOC/ASST DEAN AD
- 15Balasubramaniam Ramesh$434,249DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 16Lewis Jared Abramson$431,202VICE PRESIDENT
- 17Charles Godwin Cobb$428,000CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
- 18Salih Tamer Cavusgil$422,059REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 19Yusen Xia$416,482DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
- 20Richard Karl Plemper$411,816REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 21Likoebe Mohau Maruping$402,100PROFESSOR
- 22Jian-Dong Li$391,768DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
- 23Ajay Subramanian$387,272PROFESSOR
- 24Baozhong Yang$373,795PROFESSOR
- 25Glenn William Harrison$367,800DISTINGUISHED 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