Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

Salary analytics

Georgia Institute of Technology compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.

26K
Employees
$29,795
Median salary
$52,905
Average salary
$143,311
90th percentile
$1,364,467,906
Total payroll
$35,484,879
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Teaching Faculty1.5K$155,017$154,754
Executive & Leadership902$128,848$149,285
Legal18$122,791$129,750
Research4.3K$97,000$101,225
Information Technology679$95,065$94,670
Athletics138$84,520$182,411
Engineering & Technical132$80,881$80,507
Public Safety151$76,195$73,620
Administrative & Professional3K$68,544$66,421
Library68$65,016$62,389
Other4$63,589$69,714
Healthcare63$56,964$76,140
Facilities & Trades1.2K$45,979$48,936
Affiliate & Status726$6,254$19,642
Students & Trainees13K$5,495$13,254

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2025. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor280$128,194$150,753$151,914$171,234
associate professor253$133,366$160,973$165,871$183,008
professor448$173,278$207,691$224,331$260,447
lecturer239$9,239$22,500$45,660$71,668

Top earners

  1. 1$3,765,600
  2. 2$2,566,667
  3. 3
    Jason M Batt
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $1,407,422
  4. 4
    Angel Cabrera
    PRESIDENT
    $1,244,387
  5. 5$1,111,967
  6. 6
    Christopher J Weinke
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $786,967
  7. 7
    Sudheer Chava
    PROFESSOR
    $749,676
  8. 8
    Nell A Fortner
    HEAD COACH
    $732,689
  9. 9
    Howard L Simpson
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $711,967
  10. 10
    James Hudgens
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $702,752
  11. 11
    Wenke Lee
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $656,912
  12. 12$648,000
  13. 13$608,400
  14. 14
    Jennifer L Howe
    LIMITED TERM ADMINISTRATOR
    $561,996
  15. 15
    Danny Hall
    HEAD COACH
    $560,576
  16. 16
    Rafael Bras
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $556,195
  17. 17
    Bruce N Heppler
    HEAD COACH
    $536,836
  18. 18
    Shantay Bolton
    LIMITED TERM ADMINISTRATOR
    $529,234
  19. 19
    Soumen Ghosh
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $525,932
  20. 20
    Gideon Pillow Wade
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $516,133
  21. 21
    Ajay Kohli
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $503,568
  22. 22$496,206
  23. 23$495,300
  24. 24
    Dimitri Mavris
    DIRECTOR SUBDIV/UNIT AD
    $489,647
  25. 25
    Maryam Alavi
    PROFESSOR
    $489,009

Research output

Georgia Tech 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.

1.9K
Matched profiles
7.6M
Total citations
238K
Total works
13
Median h-index
64%
With ORCID

Highest h-index (field-unadjusted)

  1. 1206K citesh 231
  2. 2221K citesh 173
  3. 387K citesh 156
  4. 472K citesh 134
  5. 548K citesh 127
  6. 652K citesh 123
  7. 779K citesh 111
  8. 858K citesh 110
  9. 946K citesh 109
  10. 1041K citesh 109