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$179,616$175,533$171,342$164,112$158,967$157,872$157,525$167,586$156,353$146,370$147,272
Mechanical Engineering$184,599$178,609$171,665$157,593$151,954$147,389$137,497$138,419$135,710$132,211$129,017
Mathematics$142,889$150,822$138,877$129,276$127,278$124,301$122,186$115,812$118,328$114,595$113,414
Industrial & Systems Engr$175,036$170,000$171,548$160,833$162,692$153,809$159,067$159,603$142,465$147,523$137,737
Physics$152,581$155,174$147,387$136,533$131,169$121,023$117,439$119,085$115,399$111,248$106,188
Linguistics$111,842$93,529$100,915$96,980$75,600$64,410$61,955$64,880$82,942$79,117$73,622
Medical Physics$215,188$170,947$213,570$151,621$148,999$152,437$147,218$171,293$122,521$128,690$126,484
Management$219,544$173,618$225,211$219,102$213,883$201,894$207,246$207,680$201,573$194,923$187,159
French$99,688$99,901$96,626$92,508$78,801$84,379$73,907$71,850$59,728$60,000$49,357
$35.3K$76.1K$116.9K$157.7K$198.5K$239.3KFY2015FY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Computer ScienceMechanical EngineeringMathematicsIndustrial & Systems EngrPhysicsLinguisticsMedical PhysicsManagementFrench

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