Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

Department & college salaries

Median compensation of instructors who taught in each unit, by fiscal year. Attribution is by teaching activity, so this reflects teaching-faculty pay, not a unit’s full payroll.

Median salary by department
UnitFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020FY2019FY2018FY2017FY2016FY2015
Computer Science$178,367$175,533$171,675$163,311$158,967$157,628$159,117$166,048$158,136$147,594$147,272
Electrical & Computer Engr$187,475$185,909$181,356$171,049$163,208$166,753$160,397$145,403$148,849$144,483$144,418
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences$165,502$144,867$146,297$139,951$133,227$133,777$125,141$123,003$126,000$127,592$122,006
Applied Systems Engineering$180,652$177,007$171,887$145,735$120,566$147,675$116,107$172,360$183,985$168,795$172,372
Medical Physics$211,125$171,894$199,076$160,870$173,747$169,038$161,293$145,574$134,011$133,930$137,828
Serve, Learn, Sustain$121,713$291,368$188,289$286,419$220,744$235,621$220,535
Computational Mod, Sim, & Data$178,367$162,365$176,804$163,167$172,695$153,912$262,550$220,066$209,288$185,239$174,142
$102.1K$142.7K$183.4K$224.1K$264.7K$305.4KFY2015FY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Computer ScienceElectrical & Computer EngrEarth and Atmospheric SciencesApplied Systems EngineeringMedical PhysicsServe, Learn, SustainComputational Mod, Sim, & Data

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