Academic Analysis
Kennesaw State

Salary analytics

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

8.5K
Employees
$10,100
Median salary
$28,628
Average salary
$79,676
90th percentile
$242,274,562
Total payroll
$3,822,009
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Legal5$111,800$101,924
Executive & Leadership589$78,554$89,239
Engineering & Technical14$50,723$58,937
Information Technology281$48,426$45,219
Public Safety83$48,242$47,035
Athletics64$45,921$56,088
Teaching Faculty2.1K$45,000$49,696
Healthcare5$43,841$68,498
Library56$32,205$36,494
Affiliate & Status50$21,642$26,165
Research24$21,300$24,521
Administrative & Professional1.7K$19,522$21,845
Facilities & Trades622$10,941$15,382
Students & Trainees2.9K$2,200$4,507
Other15$0$1,786

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2018. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor234$66,635$75,944$80,471$90,835
associate professor279$72,382$82,617$90,431$97,248
professor247$88,883$106,273$111,655$129,962
lecturer143$49,437$58,345$61,094$68,106

Top earners

  1. 1$365,291
  2. 2$309,517
  3. 3$296,422
  4. 4$277,724
  5. 5$247,671
  6. 6$240,699
  7. 7
    Jeffrey Stepakoff
    EXEC DIRECTOR COLLDIV/SCH AC
    $236,385
  8. 8
    Steven Wilbur Smalt
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $228,552
  9. 9
    Traci A Carte
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $224,811
  10. 10
    Robin Cheramie Latino
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $223,008
  11. 11
    Jorge Perez
    VICE PROVOST
    $221,487
  12. 12$219,798
  13. 13
    Adrian L Epps
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $219,137
  14. 14
    Rajaram Veliyath
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $217,699
  15. 15$217,172
  16. 16
    Brett E Katzman
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $216,917
  17. 17
    Sheb Lee True
    PROFESSOR
    $216,895
  18. 18$214,100
  19. 19$211,239
  20. 20
    Julie K Peterson
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
    $210,000
  21. 21$208,847
  22. 22$208,419
  23. 23
    Amy Berry Henley
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $204,764
  24. 24
    Brian N Rutherford
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $203,369
  25. 25$203,231

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