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Salary analytics
Georgia Institute of Technology compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.
20K
Employees
$23,004
Median salary
$42,062
Average salary
$112,363
90th percentile
$829,962,155
Total payroll
$28,821,053
Total travel
Salary by category
| Category | People | Median | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching Faculty | 1.4K | $125,356 | $130,261 |
| Legal | 11 | $121,466 | $122,229 |
| Executive & Leadership | 639 | $108,091 | $127,887 |
| Research | 3.1K | $75,000 | $78,207 |
| Engineering & Technical | 86 | $72,867 | $67,225 |
| Athletics | 82 | $67,664 | $180,284 |
| Information Technology | 467 | $67,135 | $66,025 |
| Public Safety | 125 | $50,979 | $47,478 |
| Library | 72 | $49,852 | $55,206 |
| Administrative & Professional | 3K | $47,879 | $44,913 |
| Healthcare | 45 | $40,515 | $60,978 |
| Facilities & Trades | 912 | $29,957 | $33,638 |
| Students & Trainees | 9.7K | $4,237 | $10,276 |
| Affiliate & Status | 115 | $2,360 | $6,809 |
Salary distribution by faculty rank
Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2018. 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 | 206 | $104,616 | $121,190 | $126,195 | $138,828 |
| associate professor | 291 | $107,796 | $131,470 | $137,890 | $155,274 |
| professor | 424 | $144,800 | $182,526 | $197,143 | $240,229 |
| lecturer | 244 | $7,668 | $22,746 | $37,056 | $54,277 |
Top earners
- 1Paul C Johnson$3,265,727COACH
- 2Joshua Pastner$1,838,131COACH
- 3Michael Stansbury$954,076CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
- 4George P Peterson$871,771PRESIDENT
- 5Machelle K Joseph$687,673COACH
- 6Rafael Bras$635,267PROVOST
- 7Maryam Alavi$587,458DEAN AC
- 8Terrence E Roof$551,749ATHLETICS PROFESSIONAL
- 9Sudheer Chava$518,276PROFESSOR
- 10Steven G Swant$495,324CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
- 11Andrew Gerber$487,600VICE PRESIDENT
- 12Stephen E Cross$446,458EXEC CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
- 13Danny Hall$435,228COACH
- 14Steven Salbu$429,911PROFESSOR
- 15Barrett H Carson$428,392CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
- 16Wenke Lee$425,276PROFESSOR
- 17Ajay Kohli$419,911PROFESSOR
- 18Soumen Ghosh$409,993PROFESSOR
- 19Zvi Galil$402,166DEAN AC
- 20Jonathan Clarke$393,610ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- 21Narayanan Jayaraman$385,325PROFESSOR
- 22Jeffrey Skolnick$384,592PROFESSOR
- 23Latife Beril Toktaytsiotras$382,075PROFESSOR
- 24Terry Blum$380,626PROFESSOR
- 25Peter Thompson$379,440PROFESSOR
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