Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

Salary analytics

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

22K
Employees
$25,320
Median salary
$47,195
Average salary
$129,844
90th percentile
$1,050,413,264
Total payroll
$14,670,049
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Teaching Faculty1.3K$139,725$140,066
Executive & Leadership683$117,541$138,082
Legal25$113,700$120,137
Research3.8K$90,000$91,824
Information Technology585$82,698$81,100
Athletics107$76,923$188,248
Engineering & Technical135$71,300$68,119
Administrative & Professional2.6K$60,140$56,739
Public Safety130$56,776$55,683
Library60$55,788$56,790
Healthcare75$46,753$59,966
Facilities & Trades1.3K$34,084$34,953
Affiliate & Status530$5,989$11,910
Students & Trainees11K$5,270$11,904

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2022. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor216$110,071$137,515$138,101$154,407
associate professor269$116,321$146,169$148,133$171,697
professor423$153,254$194,226$206,391$244,525
lecturer249$7,576$20,000$40,293$65,048

Top earners

  1. 1$3,492,791
  2. 2
    Joshua Pastner
    HEAD COACH
    $3,177,443
  3. 3
    Angel Cabrera
    PRESIDENT
    $955,355
  4. 4
    Nell A Fortner
    HEAD COACH
    $825,554
  5. 5
    Michael Stansbury
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $731,787
  6. 6
    Donald Brent Key
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $662,800
  7. 7
    Danny Hall
    HEAD COACH
    $650,455
  8. 8
    Sudheer Chava
    PROFESSOR
    $622,222
  9. 9$603,719
  10. 10$565,000
  11. 11
    Rafael Bras
    PROFESSOR
    $563,547
  12. 12
    Wenke Lee
    PROFESSOR
    $537,140
  13. 13
    Kelly Fox
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
    $534,550
  14. 14
    James Hudgens
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $530,200
  15. 15
    Charles A Long
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $467,792
  16. 16
    Andrew Thacker
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $461,039
  17. 17
    Ajay Kohli
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $460,374
  18. 18
    Terry Blum
    PROFESSOR
    $453,585
  19. 19$451,350
  20. 20
    Jonathan Clarke
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $450,281
  21. 21$442,500
  22. 22
    Steven Salbu
    PROFESSOR
    $440,156
  23. 23
    Zvi Galil
    PROFESSOR
    $436,042
  24. 24
    Bruce N Heppler
    HEAD COACH
    $434,335
  25. 25
    Barrett H Carson
    LIMITED TERM ADMINISTRATOR
    $422,774

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