Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

Salary analytics

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

24K
Employees
$25,921
Median salary
$48,000
Average salary
$131,995
90th percentile
$1,151,565,654
Total payroll
$29,189,695
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Teaching Faculty1.4K$147,371$145,203
Executive & Leadership750$119,931$140,425
Legal27$114,000$119,259
Research3.9K$91,398$93,954
Information Technology600$87,268$85,069
Athletics128$77,316$166,652
Engineering & Technical141$73,096$71,521
Administrative & Professional2.8K$62,310$58,892
Library63$61,567$63,233
Public Safety143$60,608$59,264
Healthcare72$53,619$66,061
Facilities & Trades1.3K$38,962$39,681
Affiliate & Status599$7,158$18,879
Students & Trainees12K$5,223$11,948

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2023. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor229$117,100$150,233$144,633$163,833
associate professor251$127,607$150,701$158,434$178,541
professor438$163,294$199,173$213,748$250,473
lecturer247$8,957$20,738$40,238$66,152

Top earners

  1. 1$2,041,701
  2. 2
    Joshua Pastner
    HEAD COACH
    $1,921,951
  3. 3
    Angel Cabrera
    PRESIDENT
    $1,255,000
  4. 4$1,066,641
  5. 5
    Nell A Fortner
    HEAD COACH
    $869,101
  6. 6$716,136
  7. 7
    Sudheer Chava
    PROFESSOR
    $647,777
  8. 8$604,719
  9. 9$597,000
  10. 10
    Jason M Batt
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $592,587
  11. 11
    Wenke Lee
    PROFESSOR
    $567,390
  12. 12
    James Hudgens
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $565,363
  13. 13
    Danny Hall
    HEAD COACH
    $558,076
  14. 14
    Andrew Thacker
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $544,050
  15. 15
    Charles A Long
    ATHLETICS PROFESSIONAL
    $528,316
  16. 16
    Rafael Bras
    PROFESSOR
    $485,881
  17. 17$483,042
  18. 18
    Ajay Kohli
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $481,881
  19. 19
    Jennifer L Howe
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
    $479,726
  20. 20$462,946
  21. 21
    Christopher J Weinke
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $460,300
  22. 22$459,598
  23. 23
    Chaouki Abdallah
    EXEC CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
    $443,942
  24. 24
    Steven Salbu
    PROFESSOR
    $440,712
  25. 25
    Terry Blum
    PROFESSOR
    $436,100

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