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
Vertically Integrated Project$166,306$163,487$159,217$148,213$134,516$138,732$138,396
Applied Systems Engineering$180,652$177,007$171,887$145,735$120,566$147,675$116,107$178,924$183,985$168,795$172,372
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
Medical Physics$215,188$170,947$213,570$151,621$148,999$152,437$147,218$171,293$122,521$128,690$126,484
Serve, Learn, Sustain$121,713$291,368$188,289$286,419$220,744$235,621$220,535
Linguistics$111,842$93,529$100,915$96,980$75,600$64,410$61,955$64,880$82,942$79,117$73,622
Computational Science & Engr$175,500$174,548$171,710$174,703$189,541$194,083$201,652$196,950$192,490$183,814$173,021
Mathematics$142,889$150,822$138,877$129,276$127,278$124,301$122,186$115,812$118,328$114,595$113,414
$43.6K$96.8K$150K$203.3K$256.5K$309.7KFY2015FY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Vertically Integrated ProjectApplied Systems EngineeringEarth and Atmospheric SciencesMedical PhysicsServe, Learn, SustainLinguisticsComputational Science & EngrMathematics

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