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Data current — salary through FY2025; course schedules through Spring 2026.
← Georgia Tech Salary analytics Georgia Institute of Technology compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.
$732,379,188
Total payroll
Salary by category Category People Median Average Teaching Faculty 1.3K $122,364 $125,178 Legal 10 $118,350 $120,730 Executive & Leadership 616 $106,799 $127,070 Research 2.7K $71,332 $74,283 Engineering & Technical 71 $68,120 $63,214
Salary distribution by faculty rank Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2016. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions .
Rank People 25th pct Median Mean 75th pct assistant professor 236 $83,867 $111,435 $110,380 $130,667 associate professor 303 $103,829 $125,986 $131,459 $145,568 professor 501 $133,521 $170,569 $177,179 $226,187 lecturer 244 $7,424 $26,990 $34,874 $53,101
Top earners 1 $1,107,843 2 $763,144 3 $593,000 4 $557,550 5 $532,836 6 $513,246 7 $471,608 Highest h-index (field-unadjusted) 1 206K cites h 231 2 221K cites h 173 3 87K cites
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