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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.
$781,220,287
Total payroll
Salary by category Category People Median Average Teaching Faculty 1.3K $126,311 $130,381 Legal 11 $116,100 $114,787 Executive & Leadership 621 $107,326 $127,329 Research 2.9K $72,000 $75,185 Engineering & Technical 78 $68,601 $61,388
Salary distribution by faculty rank Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2017. 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 208 $102,433 $121,142 $124,238 $137,822 associate professor 290 $107,106 $130,225 $136,051 $150,998 professor 424 $142,279 $178,663 $193,319 $227,183 lecturer 221 $9,916 $34,965 $37,683 $52,350
Top earners 1 $871,644 2 $851,474 3 $610,544 4 $581,509 5 $557,192 6 $534,224 7 $490,789 Highest h-index (field-unadjusted) 1 206K cites h 231 2 221K cites h 173 3 8
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