Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

Salary analytics

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

25K
Employees
$27,398
Median salary
$50,119
Average salary
$137,048
90th percentile
$1,267,199,446
Total payroll
$35,285,952
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Teaching Faculty1.4K$150,581$148,729
Executive & Leadership806$126,837$145,966
Legal24$123,517$133,768
Information Technology628$93,220$93,145
Research4.2K$92,000$95,984
Athletics120$87,827$193,155
Engineering & Technical139$75,298$75,271
Public Safety145$66,168$65,413
Administrative & Professional3K$65,578$62,972
Library66$60,593$63,268
Healthcare77$45,324$63,666
Facilities & Trades1.3K$42,869$45,418
Affiliate & Status680$6,057$17,946
Students & Trainees13K$5,172$12,424

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2024. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor256$114,717$152,100$148,882$170,000
associate professor254$128,329$156,871$160,897$180,809
professor444$171,437$202,474$220,516$263,266
lecturer247$8,306$20,030$43,292$70,218

Top earners

  1. 1$2,965,578
  2. 2$2,112,049
  3. 3
    Angel Cabrera
    PRESIDENT
    $1,233,000
  4. 4$924,467
  5. 5
    Jason M Batt
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $892,125
  6. 6
    Nell A Fortner
    HEAD COACH
    $877,274
  7. 7
    Christopher J Weinke
    ASSISTANT COACH
    $724,467
  8. 8
    Sudheer Chava
    PROFESSOR
    $714,354
  9. 9
    Maryam Alavi
    PROFESSOR
    $711,209
  10. 10
    Wenke Lee
    PROFESSOR
    $679,836
  11. 11$606,400
  12. 12
    James Hudgens
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $594,300
  13. 13
    Rafael Bras
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $552,845
  14. 14
    Danny Hall
    HEAD COACH
    $548,076
  15. 15
    Jennifer L Howe
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
    $513,800
  16. 16$507,800
  17. 17
    Ajay Kohli
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $486,241
  18. 18$480,978
  19. 19
    Dimitri Mavris
    DIRECTOR SUBDIV/UNIT AD
    $475,875
  20. 20
    Shantay Bolton
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
    $472,577
  21. 21
    Andrew Thacker
    ATHLETICS PROFESSIONAL
    $462,850
  22. 22
    Chaouki Abdallah
    EXEC CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
    $455,850
  23. 23
    Soumen Ghosh
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $455,101
  24. 24
    Frank Rothaermel
    REGENTS PROFESSOR
    $446,046
  25. 25
    Steven Salbu
    PROFESSOR
    $443,934

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