Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

Salary analytics

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

18K
Employees
$22,795
Median salary
$40,523
Average salary
$108,241
90th percentile
$732,379,188
Total payroll
$27,668,992
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Teaching Faculty1.3K$122,364$125,178
Legal10$118,350$120,730
Executive & Leadership616$106,799$127,070
Research2.7K$71,332$74,283
Engineering & Technical71$68,120$63,214
Information Technology442$63,627$62,136
Athletics89$51,750$104,584
Public Safety109$50,089$45,463
Administrative & Professional2.7K$46,057$44,073
Library61$42,644$46,974
Healthcare42$38,077$57,217
Facilities & Trades879$28,230$31,597
Students & Trainees9K$4,240$10,169
Affiliate & Status15$0$0

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2016. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor236$83,867$111,435$110,380$130,667
associate professor303$103,829$125,986$131,459$145,568
professor501$133,521$170,569$177,179$226,187
lecturer244$7,424$26,990$34,874$53,101

Top earners

  1. 1$1,107,843
  2. 2$763,144
  3. 3$593,000
  4. 4$557,550
  5. 5
    Barrett H Carson
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT/ADVANCEMENT OFFICER
    $532,836
  6. 6
    Michael A Bobinski
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $513,246
  7. 7
    Sudheer Chava
    PROFESSOR
    $471,608
  8. 8
    Stephen E Cross
    CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
    $469,504
  9. 9
    Steven G Swant
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE/ADMINISTRATIVE
    $461,509
  10. 10
    Soumen Ghosh
    PROFESSOR
    $431,680
  11. 11
    Steven Salbu
    PROFESSOR
    $416,939
  12. 12
    Terry Blum
    PROFESSOR
    $409,125
  13. 13$400,617
  14. 14
    Andrew Gerber
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $400,409
  15. 15
    Ajay Kohli
    PROFESSOR
    $395,500
  16. 16
    Jonathan Clarke
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $394,527
  17. 17$386,397
  18. 18$382,941
  19. 19
    Zvi Galil
    DEAN AC
    $380,070
  20. 20
    Gary Schuster
    PROFESSOR
    $370,396
  21. 21$369,429
  22. 22$365,157
  23. 23$359,328
  24. 24$354,196
  25. 25
    Uzi Landman
    PROFESSOR
    $352,312

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