Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

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

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Teaching Faculty1.3K$126,311$130,381
Legal11$116,100$114,787
Executive & Leadership621$107,326$127,329
Research2.9K$72,000$75,185
Engineering & Technical78$68,601$61,388
Athletics76$65,666$129,077
Information Technology431$64,533$62,303
Library65$53,255$56,013
Public Safety114$52,300$48,398
Administrative & Professional2.9K$47,263$44,921
Healthcare41$44,128$61,470
Facilities & Trades895$30,812$34,497
Students & Trainees9.4K$4,392$10,428
Affiliate & Status21$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.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor208$102,433$121,142$124,238$137,822
associate professor290$107,106$130,225$136,051$150,998
professor424$142,279$178,663$193,319$227,183
lecturer221$9,916$34,965$37,683$52,350

Top earners

  1. 1$871,644
  2. 2$851,474
  3. 3$610,544
  4. 4$581,509
  5. 5$557,192
  6. 6
    Sudheer Chava
    PROFESSOR
    $534,224
  7. 7$490,789
  8. 8
    Steven G Swant
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
    $475,831
  9. 9
    Stephen E Cross
    EXEC CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
    $471,636
  10. 10$444,834
  11. 11
    Steven Salbu
    PROFESSOR
    $425,278
  12. 12
    Barrett H Carson
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
    $419,534
  13. 13
    Soumen Ghosh
    PROFESSOR
    $413,349
  14. 14
    Ajay Kohli
    PROFESSOR
    $410,970
  15. 15
    Andrew Gerber
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $410,833
  16. 16
    Jonathan Clarke
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $398,199
  17. 17
    Zvi Galil
    DEAN AC
    $396,223
  18. 18$390,013
  19. 19$382,141
  20. 20
    Terry Blum
    PROFESSOR
    $380,963
  21. 21
    Nishant Dass
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $376,556
  22. 22
    Wenke Lee
    PROFESSOR
    $374,863
  23. 23$374,482
  24. 24$372,493
  25. 25
    Chien-Fu Wu
    PROFESSOR
    $371,712

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