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
Serve, Learn, Sustain$121,713$291,368$188,289$286,419$220,744$235,621$220,535
Economics$161,104$151,861$147,840$155,612$143,521$147,833$137,779$117,591$123,203$130,668$110,000
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
City Planning$114,474$125,185$97,466$96,076$87,062$79,560$67,075$73,199$94,192$83,348$89,507
Georgia Tech$102,078$87,792$89,291$80,538$76,463$76,892$72,886$74,267$73,284$74,575$75,272
$49.1K$101.2K$153.2K$205.2K$257.3K$309.3KFY2015FY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Vertically Integrated ProjectApplied Systems EngineeringServe, Learn, SustainEconomicsEarth and Atmospheric SciencesCity PlanningGeorgia Tech

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