Academic Analysis
Kennesaw State

Salary analytics

Kennesaw State University compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.

9.4K
Employees
$14,100
Median salary
$38,316
Average salary
$101,739
90th percentile
$359,598,442
Total payroll
$4,383,095
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Legal6$146,831$126,314
Executive & Leadership574$97,123$114,028
Public Safety72$82,002$79,818
Information Technology198$68,853$69,079
Teaching Faculty2.4K$68,620$65,431
Research75$55,744$52,364
Library42$49,928$52,309
Administrative & Professional1.3K$49,776$44,947
Healthcare13$47,884$42,579
Facilities & Trades617$28,069$28,706
Athletics182$11,510$38,249
Affiliate & Status80$4,708$8,473
Students & Trainees3.7K$2,765$6,264
Engineering & Technical50$2,737$22,783
Other1$61$61

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2025. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor255$83,892$98,158$106,143$126,887
associate professor292$92,227$102,755$111,570$126,448
professor297$105,133$120,502$131,312$152,924
lecturer248$70,874$79,503$79,444$91,855

Top earners

  1. 1$495,000
  2. 2
    Jerry Mack
    HEAD COACH
    $425,795
  3. 3
    Antoine Pettway
    HEAD COACH
    $424,861
  4. 4$369,261
  5. 5$346,000
  6. 6$315,000
  7. 7
    Lance Burchett
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $307,608
  8. 8$305,000
  9. 9
    Karin Drotschmann Scarpinato
    EXEC CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
    $305,000
  10. 10
    Sheb Lee True
    VICE PROVOST
    $297,116
  11. 11$278,997
  12. 12$278,000
  13. 13$273,000
  14. 14$273,000
  15. 15$273,000
  16. 16
    Pamela B Cole
    VICE PROVOST
    $272,000
  17. 17$271,637
  18. 18
    Patricia Chastain
    EXEC CHIEF BUS/FIN/ADV OFFICER
    $270,738
  19. 19
    Milton Overton Jr
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $268,550
  20. 20
    Leonard Anthony Jackson
    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
    $262,084
  21. 21$260,000
  22. 22
    Khawaja Asjad Saeed
    INTERIM ASSO/ASST DEAN AC
    $257,170
  23. 23$256,496
  24. 24
    Aaron Kirk Streimish
    CHIEF INFORMATION (IT) OFFICER
    $256,000
  25. 25$255,845

Research output

Kennesaw State faculty matched to an OpenAlex scholarly profile (all-time, field-unadjusted; a research-active subset). See the cross-institution citations & compensation and research intensity by discipline.

1K
Matched profiles
668K
Total citations
37K
Total works
4
Median h-index
47%
With ORCID

Highest h-index (field-unadjusted)

  1. 144K citesh 95
  2. 282K citesh 77
  3. 317K citesh 59
  4. 47.7K citesh 52
  5. 59.9K citesh 48
  6. 69K citesh 46
  7. 76K citesh 46
  8. 86.7K citesh 45
  9. 97.1K citesh 43
  10. 1011K citesh 42