Academic Analysis
Kennesaw State

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

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Executive & Leadership582$75,050$85,651
Legal7$67,619$87,842
Teaching Faculty2.1K$51,200$50,938
Public Safety86$48,668$46,613
Engineering & Technical15$48,663$52,158
Information Technology278$48,637$46,122
Research21$41,627$37,950
Athletics83$35,567$46,280
Healthcare7$34,531$54,078
Library61$31,403$36,084
Administrative & Professional1.7K$23,170$23,113
Facilities & Trades600$12,861$16,820
Other12$2,795$2,685
Students & Trainees3K$2,178$4,708
Affiliate & Status13$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.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor252$67,923$75,760$80,187$87,557
associate professor281$73,450$82,932$89,967$95,724
professor247$87,221$103,650$110,406$129,668
lecturer158$51,502$57,675$58,828$65,128

Top earners

  1. 1$466,629
  2. 2$390,550
  3. 3$309,804
  4. 4$304,526
  5. 5$250,199
  6. 6
    Steven Wilbur Smalt
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $240,287
  7. 7
    Milton Overton Jr
    DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
    $238,600
  8. 8
    Jeffrey Stepakoff
    EXEC DIRECTOR COLLDIV/SCH AC
    $236,385
  9. 9$227,704
  10. 10
    Brian N Rutherford
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $227,382
  11. 11$227,200
  12. 12$221,255
  13. 13$220,042
  14. 14
    Robin Cheramie Latino
    INTERIM DEAN AC
    $219,546
  15. 15
    Ronald H Matson
    ASSOC/ASST VICE PRESIDENT
    $217,190
  16. 16
    Sheb Lee True
    PROFESSOR
    $216,046
  17. 17
    Brett E Katzman
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $213,939
  18. 18
    Saurabh Gupta
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $213,333
  19. 19
    Julie K Peterson
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
    $210,000
  20. 20$206,000
  21. 21
    Brenda R Stopher
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $203,000
  22. 22$199,949
  23. 23$196,082
  24. 24$194,861
  25. 25$193,224

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