Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

Salary analytics

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

21K
Employees
$23,085
Median salary
$41,283
Average salary
$111,491
90th percentile
$857,576,550
Total payroll
$30,050,613
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Legal13$127,847$125,515
Teaching Faculty1.4K$126,870$131,047
Executive & Leadership628$107,646$128,188
Research3.3K$73,662$76,815
Information Technology552$68,544$67,136
Athletics110$66,400$106,413
Engineering & Technical109$62,372$62,581
Public Safety146$52,077$49,016
Library71$49,668$54,034
Administrative & Professional2.9K$47,714$44,876
Healthcare59$44,124$56,665
Facilities & Trades943$30,645$36,013
Students & Trainees10K$4,191$10,341
Affiliate & Status224$3,202$7,637

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2019. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor205$99,686$122,500$126,338$139,050
associate professor293$109,115$131,570$138,668$160,646
professor432$147,260$183,656$198,687$240,068
lecturer261$7,311$18,232$37,081$56,073

Top earners

  1. 1$1,135,914
  2. 2$635,442
  3. 3
    Sudheer Chava
    PROFESSOR
    $610,133
  4. 4$585,258
  5. 5
    Michael Stansbury
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $500,000
  6. 6
    Danny Hall
    HEAD COACH
    $454,300
  7. 7
    Ajay Kohli
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $442,486
  8. 8
    Wenke Lee
    PROFESSOR
    $437,928
  9. 9
    Steven Salbu
    PROFESSOR
    $433,898
  10. 10
    Barrett H Carson
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
    $428,194
  11. 11
    Jonathan Clarke
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $415,610
  12. 12$408,176
  13. 13$402,490
  14. 14
    Zvi Galil
    DEAN AC
    $402,166
  15. 15$400,610
  16. 16
    Stephen E Cross
    RESEARCH PROFESSIONAL AD
    $396,105
  17. 17
    Abdul R Beyah
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $392,908
  18. 18$392,492
  19. 19
    Charles Isbell
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $386,750
  20. 20
    Vigor Yang
    PROFESSOR
    $385,544
  21. 21$381,917
  22. 22$378,127
  23. 23
    Chien-Fu Wu
    PROFESSOR
    $377,313
  24. 24
    Soumen Ghosh
    PROFESSOR
    $375,464
  25. 25$373,675

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