Teaching activity comes from Georgia Tech's own section-level course catalog, then each instructor is matched by name to the public Open Georgia salary data to connect teaching to compensation.
Source
Georgia Tech course catalog (section-level schedule database) + the Open Georgia salary & travel export.
Coverage: Course sections across the catalog's terms; salary records FY2015–FY2025.
How it was collected
- Course, section, meeting, and instructor rows are ingested from the institution's catalog database.
- Instructors are de-duplicated by email — a single person often had many Banner IDs, so email is the reliable identity key.
- Each instructor is matched to an Open Georgia salary record by normalized name using a tiered accept / review / reject scorer; only confident matches are linked.
- Cross-listed / co-scheduled sections that share a meeting are collapsed to a single event so a class is never counted twice.
Accuracy & instructor linking
- About 84.8% of distinct instructors were linked to a salary record.
- Unlinked instructors are typically people absent from the salary export (e.g. some adjuncts or graduate instructors), not mismatches — matching is tuned for precision over recall.
Limitations
- Salary data has no department field, so a person's pay is attributed to the department(s) they taught in that fiscal year — this reflects teaching-faculty pay, not a unit's full payroll.
- Contact hours are derived from meeting time × days; credit hours are sparse and zero for labs, so they are not used.
- Names of lower-paid individuals may be obfuscated (shown as an ID) depending on the admin salary threshold; salary figures always remain visible.
- Non-teaching staff appear in salary analytics but not in teaching views.
All figures derive from public records (the Open Georgia salary & travel export and the institution’s published course schedule). This site presents analysis only and is not affiliated with Georgia Institute of Technology.