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Salary analytics
Georgia Institute of Technology compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.
21K
Employees
$25,566
Median salary
$44,036
Average salary
$115,323
90th percentile
$909,527,096
Total payroll
$22,781,680
Total travel
Salary by category
| Category | People | Median | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching Faculty | 1.4K | $132,011 | $133,813 |
| Executive & Leadership | 628 | $111,638 | $134,012 |
| Legal | 24 | $90,841 | $104,245 |
| Research | 3.3K | $79,260 | $83,015 |
| Information Technology | 601 | $75,334 | $75,659 |
| Engineering & Technical | 141 | $63,134 | $62,677 |
| Athletics | 111 | $59,150 | $107,903 |
| Public Safety | 138 | $56,204 | $53,198 |
| Administrative & Professional | 2.6K | $52,844 | $50,714 |
| Library | 64 | $47,596 | $54,835 |
| Healthcare | 74 | $41,430 | $56,179 |
| Facilities & Trades | 939 | $33,014 | $38,512 |
| Students & Trainees | 10K | $4,776 | $11,384 |
| Affiliate & Status | 399 | $4,293 | $10,271 |
Salary distribution by faculty rank
Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2020. 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 | $106,520 | $132,701 | $133,321 | $147,753 |
| associate professor | 288 | $108,537 | $136,317 | $140,887 | $160,538 |
| professor | 428 | $148,750 | $184,071 | $198,876 | $242,233 |
| lecturer | 256 | $9,056 | $25,126 | $41,283 | $60,372 |
Top earners
- 1Angel Cabrera$1,027,547PRESIDENT
- 2Rafael Bras$652,864PROVOST
- 3Sudheer Chava$619,667PROFESSOR
- 4George P Peterson$615,945REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 5Donald Brent Key$607,564ASSISTANT COACH
- 6Maryam Alavi$598,769DEAN AC
- 7Michael Stansbury$554,600CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
- 8Danny Hall$530,383HEAD COACH
- 9Wenke Lee$504,923PROFESSOR
- 10Zvi Galil$481,233PROFESSOR
- 11Joshua Pastner$469,500HEAD COACH
- 12Andrew Thacker$457,800ASSISTANT COACH
- 13Ajay Kohli$454,035REGENTS PROFESSOR
- 14Steven Salbu$446,235PROFESSOR
- 15Barrett H Carson$440,016CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
- 16James Hudgens$439,667VICE PRESIDENT
- 17Jonathan Clarke$426,444ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- 18Latife Beril Toktaytsiotras$420,760PROFESSOR
- 19Chaouki Abdallah$416,025EXEC CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
- 20Terry Blum$409,509PROFESSOR
- 21Narayanan Jayaraman$409,361PROFESSOR
- 22David Patenaude$407,800ASSISTANT COACH
- 23Sabyasachi Mitra$389,393ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
- 24Jeffrey Skolnick$388,554PROFESSOR
- 25Chien-Fu Wu$383,966PROFESSOR
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