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Salary analytics
Georgia Institute of Technology compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.
19K
Employees
$23,329
Median salary
$41,486
Average salary
$110,968
90th percentile
$781,220,287
Total payroll
$26,659,547
Total travel
Salary by category
| Category | People | Median | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching Faculty | 1.3K | $126,311 | $130,381 |
| Legal | 11 | $116,100 | $114,787 |
| Executive & Leadership | 621 | $107,326 | $127,329 |
| Research | 2.9K | $72,000 | $75,185 |
| Engineering & Technical | 78 | $68,601 | $61,388 |
| Athletics | 76 | $65,666 | $129,077 |
| Information Technology | 431 | $64,533 | $62,303 |
| Library | 65 | $53,255 | $56,013 |
| Public Safety | 114 | $52,300 | $48,398 |
| Administrative & Professional | 2.9K | $47,263 | $44,921 |
| Healthcare | 41 | $44,128 | $61,470 |
| Facilities & Trades | 895 | $30,812 | $34,497 |
| Students & Trainees | 9.4K | $4,392 | $10,428 |
| Affiliate & Status | 21 | $0 | $673 |
Salary distribution by faculty rank
Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2017. 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 | 208 | $102,433 | $121,142 | $124,238 | $137,822 |
| associate professor | 290 | $107,106 | $130,225 | $136,051 | $150,998 |
| professor | 424 | $142,279 | $178,663 | $193,319 | $227,183 |
| lecturer | 221 | $9,916 | $34,965 | $37,683 | $52,350 |
Top earners
- 1Terrence E Roof$871,644COACH
- 2George P Peterson$851,474PRESIDENT
- 3Rafael Bras$610,544PROVOST
- 4Maryam Alavi$581,509DEAN AC
- 5Joshua Pastner$557,192COACH
- 6Sudheer Chava$534,224PROFESSOR
- 7Machelle K Joseph$490,789COACH
- 8Steven G Swant$475,831CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
- 9Stephen E Cross$471,636EXEC CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
- 10Danny Hall$444,834COACH
- 11Steven Salbu$425,278PROFESSOR
- 12Barrett H Carson$419,534CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
- 13Soumen Ghosh$413,349PROFESSOR
- 14Ajay Kohli$410,970PROFESSOR
- 15Andrew Gerber$410,833VICE PRESIDENT
- 16Jonathan Clarke$398,199ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- 17Zvi Galil$396,223DEAN AC
- 18Russell Dupuis$390,013PROFESSOR
- 19Paul C Johnson$382,141COACH
- 20Terry Blum$380,963PROFESSOR
- 21Nishant Dass$376,556ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- 22Wenke Lee$374,863PROFESSOR
- 23Narayanan Jayaraman$374,482PROFESSOR
- 24Sabyasachi Mitra$372,493PROFESSOR
- 25Chien-Fu Wu$371,712PROFESSOR
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