Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

Salary analytics

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

20K
Employees
$27,278
Median salary
$47,061
Average salary
$121,332
90th percentile
$940,466,335
Total payroll
$3,591,072
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Teaching Faculty1.3K$133,412$136,767
Executive & Leadership641$110,429$132,687
Legal26$104,578$113,201
Research3.5K$81,552$83,294
Information Technology571$78,106$79,448
Engineering & Technical133$66,580$65,024
Athletics103$57,528$158,236
Administrative & Professional2.3K$56,469$55,532
Public Safety131$56,002$52,687
Library56$53,832$58,713
Healthcare70$45,592$58,622
Facilities & Trades889$34,609$39,292
Affiliate & Status545$12,481$29,148
Students & Trainees9.7K$5,943$12,346

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2021. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor203$105,533$130,333$133,166$144,250
associate professor280$110,169$137,232$142,804$165,951
professor427$146,885$182,718$195,538$236,823
lecturer229$7,540$24,000$41,666$61,502

Top earners

  1. 1$3,252,638
  2. 2
    Joshua Pastner
    HEAD COACH
    $2,014,069
  3. 3
    Angel Cabrera
    PRESIDENT
    $975,030
  4. 4
    Nell A Fortner
    HEAD COACH
    $715,291
  5. 5
    Rafael Bras
    PROFESSOR
    $638,545
  6. 6
    Wenke Lee
    PROFESSOR
    $624,123
  7. 7
    Michael Stansbury
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $622,945
  8. 8
    Donald Brent Key
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $604,872
  9. 9$598,719
  10. 10
    Sudheer Chava
    PROFESSOR
    $544,044
  11. 11
    Kelly Fox
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
    $535,800
  12. 12$513,531
  13. 13
    James Hudgens
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $506,250
  14. 14
    Danny Hall
    HEAD COACH
    $498,547
  15. 15
    Ajay Kohli
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $454,819
  16. 16
    Steven Salbu
    PROFESSOR
    $449,001
  17. 17
    Barrett H Carson
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
    $439,966
  18. 18
    Zvi Galil
    PROFESSOR
    $428,209
  19. 19
    Chaouki Abdallah
    EXEC CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
    $416,000
  20. 20$414,600
  21. 21
    Chien-Fu Wu
    PROFESSOR
    $409,834
  22. 22
    Jeffrey Skolnick
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $409,558
  23. 23
    Rich Demillo
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $409,263
  24. 24
    Andrew Thacker
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $408,498
  25. 25
    Jonathan Clarke
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $403,703

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