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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
| Category | People | Median | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching Faculty | 1.5K | $155,017 | $154,754 |
| Executive & Leadership | 902 | $128,848 | $149,285 |
| Legal | 18 | $122,791 | $129,750 |
| Research | 4.3K | $97,000 | $101,225 |
| Information Technology | 679 | $95,065 | $94,670 |
| Athletics | 138 | $84,520 | $182,411 |
| Engineering & Technical | 132 | $80,881 | $80,507 |
| Public Safety | 151 | $76,195 | $73,620 |
| Administrative & Professional | 3K | $68,544 | $66,421 |
| Library | 68 | $65,016 | $62,389 |
| Other | 4 | $63,589 | $69,714 |
| Healthcare | 63 | $56,964 | $76,140 |
| Facilities & Trades | 1.2K | $45,979 | $48,936 |
| Affiliate & Status | 726 | $6,254 | $19,642 |
| Students & Trainees | 13K | $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.
| Rank | People | 25th pct | Median | Mean | 75th pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| assistant professor | 280 | $128,194 | $150,753 | $151,914 | $171,234 |
| associate professor | 253 | $133,366 | $160,973 | $165,871 | $183,008 |
| professor | 448 | $173,278 | $207,691 | $224,331 | $260,447 |
| lecturer | 239 | $9,239 | $22,500 | $45,660 | $71,668 |
Top earners
- 1Donald Brent Key$3,765,600HEAD COACH
- 2Damon Stoudamire$2,566,667HEAD COACH
- 3Jason M Batt$1,407,422VICE PRESIDENT
- 4Angel Cabrera$1,244,387PRESIDENT
- 5Edward Harrison Faulkner$1,111,967ASSISTANT COACH
- 6Christopher J Weinke$786,967ASSISTANT COACH
- 7Sudheer Chava$749,676PROFESSOR
- 8Nell A Fortner$732,689HEAD COACH
- 9Howard L Simpson$711,967ASSISTANT COACH
- 10James Hudgens$702,752VICE PRESIDENT
- 11Wenke Lee$656,912REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 12Anuj Mehrotra$648,000DEAN AC
- 13Steven Mclaughlin$608,400PROVOST
- 14Jennifer L Howe$561,996LIMITED TERM ADMINISTRATOR
- 15Danny Hall$560,576HEAD COACH
- 16Rafael Bras$556,195REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 17Bruce N Heppler$536,836HEAD COACH
- 18Shantay Bolton$529,234LIMITED TERM ADMINISTRATOR
- 19Soumen Ghosh$525,932ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
- 20Gideon Pillow Wade$516,133ASSISTANT COACH
- 21Ajay Kohli$503,568REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 22Latife Beril Toktaytsiotras$496,206REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 23Karl Hobbs$495,300COACH
- 24Dimitri Mavris$489,647DIRECTOR SUBDIV/UNIT AD
- 25Maryam Alavi$489,009PROFESSOR
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)
- 1206K citesh 231
- 2221K citesh 173
- 387K citesh 156
- 472K citesh 134
- 548K citesh 127
- 652K citesh 123
- 779K citesh 111
- 858K citesh 110
- 946K citesh 109
- 1041K citesh 109