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
Medical Physics$215,188$170,947$213,570$151,621$148,999$152,437$147,218$171,293$122,521$128,690$126,484
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences$168,702$150,144$146,526$140,142$136,052$134,355$126,553$123,779$127,988$124,752$114,940
Serve, Learn, Sustain$121,713$291,368$188,289$286,419$220,744$235,621$220,535
Literature, Media & Comm$119,324$113,485$103,000$100,150$95,817$95,819$85,878$89,877$92,500$84,624$83,159
Spanish$145,566$131,494$111,678$84,393$81,868$77,687$77,973$82,995$79,660$72,200$72,543
$54.7K$105.5K$156.4K$207.2K$258.1K$308.9KFY2015FY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Computer ScienceMedical PhysicsEarth and Atmospheric SciencesServe, Learn, SustainLiterature, Media & CommSpanish

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