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Salary analytics
Kennesaw State University compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.
8.5K
Employees
$10,193
Median salary
$28,739
Average salary
$79,308
90th percentile
$242,929,632
Total payroll
$3,582,359
Total travel
Salary by category
| Category | People | Median | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Executive & Leadership | 582 | $75,050 | $85,651 |
| Legal | 7 | $67,619 | $87,842 |
| Teaching Faculty | 2.1K | $51,200 | $50,938 |
| Public Safety | 86 | $48,668 | $46,613 |
| Engineering & Technical | 15 | $48,663 | $52,158 |
| Information Technology | 278 | $48,637 | $46,122 |
| Research | 21 | $41,627 | $37,950 |
| Athletics | 83 | $35,567 | $46,280 |
| Healthcare | 7 | $34,531 | $54,078 |
| Library | 61 | $31,403 | $36,084 |
| Administrative & Professional | 1.7K | $23,170 | $23,113 |
| Facilities & Trades | 600 | $12,861 | $16,820 |
| Other | 12 | $2,795 | $2,685 |
| Students & Trainees | 3K | $2,178 | $4,708 |
| Affiliate & Status | 13 | $346 | $7,605 |
Salary distribution by faculty rank
Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2019. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.
| Rank | People | 25th pct | Median | Mean | 75th pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| assistant professor | 252 | $67,923 | $75,760 | $80,187 | $87,557 |
| associate professor | 281 | $73,450 | $82,932 | $89,967 | $95,724 |
| professor | 247 | $87,221 | $103,650 | $110,406 | $129,668 |
| lecturer | 158 | $51,502 | $57,675 | $58,828 | $65,128 |
Top earners
- 1Pamela Whitten$466,629PRESIDENT
- 2Brian L Bohannon$390,550COACH
- 3William Kenneth Harmon$309,804PROFESSOR
- 4Kathy S Schwaig$304,526PROVOST
- 5Dana R Hermanson$250,199PROFESSOR
- 6Steven Wilbur Smalt$240,287DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 7Milton Overton Jr$238,600DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
- 8Jeffrey Stepakoff$236,385EXEC DIRECTOR COLLDIV/SCH AC
- 9Benjamin P Scafidi$227,704PROFESSOR
- 10Brian N Rutherford$227,382ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- 11Albert Skinner$227,200COACH
- 12Divesh S Sharma$221,255PROFESSOR
- 13Roger Clinton Tutterow$220,042PROFESSOR
- 14Robin Cheramie Latino$219,546INTERIM DEAN AC
- 15Ronald H Matson$217,190ASSOC/ASST VICE PRESIDENT
- 16Sheb Lee True$216,046PROFESSOR
- 17Brett E Katzman$213,939DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 18Saurabh Gupta$213,333ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- 19Julie K Peterson$210,000CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
- 20Jon A Preston$206,000DEAN AC
- 21Brenda R Stopher$203,000VICE PRESIDENT
- 22Robert Keith Tudor$199,949PROFESSOR
- 23Rajaram Veliyath$196,082PROFESSOR
- 24Armen Tashchian$194,861PROFESSOR
- 25Timothy M Mathews$193,224PROFESSOR
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)
- 144K citesh 95
- 282K citesh 77
- 317K citesh 59
- 47.7K citesh 52
- 59.9K citesh 48
- 69K citesh 46
- 76K citesh 46
- 86.7K citesh 45
- 97.1K citesh 43
- 1011K citesh 42