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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.
$857,576,550
Total payroll
Salary by category Category People Median Average Legal 13 $127,847 $125,515 Teaching Faculty 1.4K $126,870 $131,047 Executive & Leadership 628 $107,646 $128,188 Research 3.3K $73,662 $76,815 Information Technology 552 $68,544 $67,136
Salary distribution by faculty rank Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2019. 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 205 $99,686 $122,500 $126,338 $139,050 associate professor 293 $109,115 $131,570 $138,668 $160,646 professor 432 $147,260 $183,656 $198,687 $240,068 lecturer 261 $7,311 $18,232 $37,081 $56,073
Top earners 1 $1,135,914 2 $635,442 3 $610,133 4 $585,258 5 $500,000 6 $454,300 7 $442,486 Highest h-index (field-unadjusted) 1 206K cites h 231 2 221K cites h 173 3 8
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