Academic Analysis
Kennesaw State

Salary analytics

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

8K
Employees
$9,053
Median salary
$28,057
Average salary
$79,343
90th percentile
$223,644,289
Total payroll
$4,148,981
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Executive & Leadership563$76,869$86,484
Legal6$76,429$87,130
Healthcare3$47,864$89,087
Information Technology246$46,554$45,135
Public Safety87$45,500$44,476
Engineering & Technical20$44,345$40,525
Athletics66$43,129$49,773
Teaching Faculty2.1K$37,993$48,034
Library57$31,909$33,849
Research24$22,836$24,023
Administrative & Professional1.5K$21,358$22,019
Facilities & Trades254$18,294$18,583
Other8$6,401$6,671
Students & Trainees3K$2,129$4,286
Affiliate & Status9$90$4,051

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2017. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor235$64,064$74,019$78,090$86,845
associate professor301$70,816$82,267$88,718$98,338
professor222$87,332$106,575$112,216$127,553
lecturer137$48,400$54,850$56,876$63,750

Top earners

  1. 1$308,820
  2. 2$286,667
  3. 3$269,838
  4. 4
    Vaughn Alexander Williams
    DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
    $269,014
  5. 5
    Gaia Giuseppina Marchisio
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $263,509
  6. 6
    Kathryn K Epps
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $256,929
  7. 7$253,120
  8. 8$238,874
  9. 9$233,844
  10. 10
    Jeffrey Stepakoff
    EXEC DIRECTOR COLLDIV/SCH AC
    $231,750
  11. 11
    Lectra Lawhorne
    CHIEF INFORMATION (IT) OFFICER
    $222,347
  12. 12
    Brett E Katzman
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $217,117
  13. 13
    Sheb Lee True
    PROFESSOR
    $214,999
  14. 14$213,690
  15. 15
    Stacy Mcilraith Campbell
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $207,268
  16. 16
    Michael J Harders
    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
    $205,244
  17. 17$202,801
  18. 18
    Michael S Salvador
    SENIOR LECTURER
    $201,604
  19. 19
    Traci A Carte
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $201,341
  20. 20
    Julie K Peterson
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
    $201,128
  21. 21
    Torsten Michael Pieper
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $200,738
  22. 22
    Steven D Olson
    LIMITED TERM FACULTY
    $200,169
  23. 23
    Amy Berry Henley
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $196,855
  24. 24
    Robin Cheramie Latino
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $196,177
  25. 25$193,761

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