Academic Analysis
Kennesaw State

Salary analytics

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

8.2K
Employees
$9,120
Median salary
$23,756
Average salary
$65,368
90th percentile
$195,580,204
Total payroll
$3,136,056
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Executive & Leadership648$62,822$73,944
Legal8$56,260$70,405
Engineering & Technical23$40,347$38,149
Information Technology244$38,859$36,717
Research14$38,657$27,773
Healthcare1$38,574$38,574
Athletics70$37,255$46,095
Public Safety97$27,357$32,311
Library59$25,638$25,963
Teaching Faculty2.3K$24,480$36,391
Administrative & Professional1.6K$16,779$18,383
Facilities & Trades281$13,721$17,382
Other8$7,472$13,643
Students & Trainees2.8K$1,785$3,469
Affiliate & Status17$0$14

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2015. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor628$6,279$14,688$34,892$64,336
associate professor291$63,866$76,004$78,696$88,037
professor204$71,604$92,991$91,456$117,724
lecturer192$46,246$54,487$55,624$66,369

Top earners

  1. 1
    Daniel S Papp
    PRESIDENT
    $397,788
  2. 2$284,702
  3. 3$260,716
  4. 4$249,984
  5. 5$249,143
  6. 6
    Kathryn K Epps
    ASSOC/ASST DEAN AC
    $241,340
  7. 7
    Robert Keith Tudor
    DEPARTMENT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $209,025
  8. 8$205,263
  9. 9
    Joseph F Hair
    PROFESSOR
    $202,901
  10. 10
    Linda M Noble
    VICE CHANCELLOR
    $201,401
  11. 11
    Richard M Franza
    ASSOC/ASST DEAN AC
    $198,115
  12. 12
    Ralph J Rascati
    ASSOC/ASST VICE PRESIDENT
    $197,850
  13. 13
    Randy C Hinds
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE/ADMINISTRATIVE
    $196,517
  14. 14
    Richard Corhen
    DIRECTOR, DIVISION/DEPARTMENT AD
    $196,249
  15. 15
    Vaughn Alexander Williams
    DIRECTOR, DIVISION/DEPARTMENT AD
    $195,142
  16. 16
    Joseph H Astrachan
    DEPARTMENT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $193,211
  17. 17
    Brett E Katzman
    DEPARTMENT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $192,978
  18. 18$192,500
  19. 19
    Richard R Clune
    ASSOC/ASST DEPT CHAIR/DIRECTOR/HEAD AC
    $191,055
  20. 20
    Christopher C Hanks
    DIRECTOR, COLLEGE/DIVISION/SCHOOL AC
    $190,000
  21. 21
    Lucy F Ackert
    PROFESSOR
    $189,622
  22. 22
    Divesh S Sharma
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $186,584
  23. 23
    Sheb Lee True
    DEPARTMENT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $183,246
  24. 24
    Robin Cheramie Latino
    DEPARTMENT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $182,846
  25. 25
    Amy Berry Henley
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $178,527

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