Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

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

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Teaching Faculty1.4K$132,011$133,813
Executive & Leadership628$111,638$134,012
Legal24$90,841$104,245
Research3.3K$79,260$83,015
Information Technology601$75,334$75,659
Engineering & Technical141$63,134$62,677
Athletics111$59,150$107,903
Public Safety138$56,204$53,198
Administrative & Professional2.6K$52,844$50,714
Library64$47,596$54,835
Healthcare74$41,430$56,179
Facilities & Trades939$33,014$38,512
Students & Trainees10K$4,776$11,384
Affiliate & Status399$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.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor206$106,520$132,701$133,321$147,753
associate professor288$108,537$136,317$140,887$160,538
professor428$148,750$184,071$198,876$242,233
lecturer256$9,056$25,126$41,283$60,372

Top earners

  1. 1
    Angel Cabrera
    PRESIDENT
    $1,027,547
  2. 2$652,864
  3. 3
    Sudheer Chava
    PROFESSOR
    $619,667
  4. 4
    George P Peterson
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $615,945
  5. 5
    Donald Brent Key
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $607,564
  6. 6$598,769
  7. 7
    Michael Stansbury
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $554,600
  8. 8
    Danny Hall
    HEAD COACH
    $530,383
  9. 9
    Wenke Lee
    PROFESSOR
    $504,923
  10. 10
    Zvi Galil
    PROFESSOR
    $481,233
  11. 11
    Joshua Pastner
    HEAD COACH
    $469,500
  12. 12
    Andrew Thacker
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $457,800
  13. 13
    Ajay Kohli
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $454,035
  14. 14
    Steven Salbu
    PROFESSOR
    $446,235
  15. 15
    Barrett H Carson
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
    $440,016
  16. 16
    James Hudgens
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $439,667
  17. 17
    Jonathan Clarke
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $426,444
  18. 18$420,760
  19. 19
    Chaouki Abdallah
    EXEC CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
    $416,025
  20. 20
    Terry Blum
    PROFESSOR
    $409,509
  21. 21$409,361
  22. 22
    David Patenaude
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $407,800
  23. 23
    Sabyasachi Mitra
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $389,393
  24. 24$388,554
  25. 25
    Chien-Fu Wu
    PROFESSOR
    $383,966

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