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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.
$940,466,335
Total payroll
Salary by category Category People Median Average Teaching Faculty 1.3K $133,412 $136,767 Executive & Leadership 641 $110,429 $132,687 Legal 26 $104,578 $113,201 Research 3.5K $81,552 $83,294 Information Technology 571 $78,106 $79,448
Salary distribution by faculty rank Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2021. 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 203 $105,533 $130,333 $133,166 $144,250 associate professor 280 $110,169 $137,232 $142,804 $165,951 professor 427 $146,885 $182,718 $195,538 $236,823 lecturer 229 $7,540 $24,000 $41,666 $61,502
Top earners 1 $3,252,638 2 $2,014,069 3 $975,030 4 $715,291 5 $638,545 6 $624,123 7 $622,945 Highest h-index (field-unadjusted) 1 206K cites h 231 2 221K cites h 173 3 8
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