Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

Salary analytics

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

18K
Employees
$22,363
Median salary
$39,562
Average salary
$105,307
90th percentile
$703,365,039
Total payroll
$27,418,190
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Teaching Faculty1.3K$121,673$123,132
Legal10$115,586$117,334
Executive & Leadership595$105,251$124,229
Research2.5K$70,374$73,971
Engineering & Technical78$62,870$57,882
Information Technology434$62,350$60,799
Athletics82$55,623$111,207
Public Safety123$47,606$41,989
Library65$47,372$50,124
Administrative & Professional2.8K$43,356$41,075
Healthcare36$38,442$63,587
Facilities & Trades856$27,556$30,565
Students & Trainees8.9K$4,803$10,476
Affiliate & Status31$0$0

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2015. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor239$78,774$105,000$105,122$126,667
associate professor298$101,449$123,411$126,527$142,917
professor502$130,630$166,454$172,642$219,587
lecturer202$9,699$27,602$36,562$51,418

Top earners

  1. 1$1,108,198
  2. 2$776,422
  3. 3$689,750
  4. 4
    Michael A Bobinski
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $679,635
  5. 5$550,000
  6. 6
    Steven Salbu
    PROFESSOR
    $516,381
  7. 7
    Stephen E Cross
    CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
    $490,868
  8. 8$481,967
  9. 9
    Steven G Swant
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE/ADMINISTRATIVE
    $469,765
  10. 10
    Sudheer Chava
    PROFESSOR
    $424,978
  11. 11
    Ajay Kohli
    PROFESSOR
    $407,733
  12. 12
    Soumen Ghosh
    PROFESSOR
    $397,156
  13. 13$390,007
  14. 14
    Terry Blum
    PROFESSOR
    $380,206
  15. 15
    Santiago Grijalva
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $375,110
  16. 16
    Barrett H Carson
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT/ADVANCEMENT OFFICER
    $374,261
  17. 17$372,242
  18. 18
    Zvi Galil
    DEAN AC
    $370,800
  19. 19
    Gary Schuster
    PROFESSOR
    $370,396
  20. 20$369,548
  21. 21
    Jeffrey Scott
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE/ADMINISTRATIVE
    $352,107
  22. 22$350,553
  23. 23
    Gary May
    DEAN AC
    $347,188
  24. 24$346,319
  25. 25
    Uzi Landman
    PROFESSOR
    $346,116

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