Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

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

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Teaching Faculty1.4K$125,356$130,261
Legal11$121,466$122,229
Executive & Leadership639$108,091$127,887
Research3.1K$75,000$78,207
Engineering & Technical86$72,867$67,225
Athletics82$67,664$180,284
Information Technology467$67,135$66,025
Public Safety125$50,979$47,478
Library72$49,852$55,206
Administrative & Professional3K$47,879$44,913
Healthcare45$40,515$60,978
Facilities & Trades912$29,957$33,638
Students & Trainees9.7K$4,237$10,276
Affiliate & Status115$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.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor206$104,616$121,190$126,195$138,828
associate professor291$107,796$131,470$137,890$155,274
professor424$144,800$182,526$197,143$240,229
lecturer244$7,668$22,746$37,056$54,277

Top earners

  1. 1$3,265,727
  2. 2$1,838,131
  3. 3
    Michael Stansbury
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $954,076
  4. 4$871,771
  5. 5$687,673
  6. 6$635,267
  7. 7$587,458
  8. 8
    Terrence E Roof
    ATHLETICS PROFESSIONAL
    $551,749
  9. 9
    Sudheer Chava
    PROFESSOR
    $518,276
  10. 10
    Steven G Swant
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
    $495,324
  11. 11
    Andrew Gerber
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $487,600
  12. 12
    Stephen E Cross
    EXEC CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
    $446,458
  13. 13$435,228
  14. 14
    Steven Salbu
    PROFESSOR
    $429,911
  15. 15
    Barrett H Carson
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
    $428,392
  16. 16
    Wenke Lee
    PROFESSOR
    $425,276
  17. 17
    Ajay Kohli
    PROFESSOR
    $419,911
  18. 18
    Soumen Ghosh
    PROFESSOR
    $409,993
  19. 19
    Zvi Galil
    DEAN AC
    $402,166
  20. 20
    Jonathan Clarke
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $393,610
  21. 21$385,325
  22. 22$384,592
  23. 23$382,075
  24. 24
    Terry Blum
    PROFESSOR
    $380,626
  25. 25$379,440

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