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Salary analytics
Kennesaw State University compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.
8.5K
Employees
$10,947
Median salary
$29,586
Average salary
$81,704
90th percentile
$250,531,481
Total payroll
$2,681,586
Total travel
Salary by category
| Category | People | Median | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal | 7 | $90,149 | $96,746 |
| Executive & Leadership | 549 | $77,341 | $89,271 |
| Public Safety | 83 | $54,513 | $52,828 |
| Engineering & Technical | 14 | $53,897 | $59,256 |
| Teaching Faculty | 2.1K | $52,538 | $52,174 |
| Information Technology | 247 | $48,426 | $44,285 |
| Athletics | 76 | $46,361 | $52,909 |
| Research | 30 | $42,050 | $44,094 |
| Healthcare | 8 | $35,235 | $52,716 |
| Library | 61 | $31,030 | $37,809 |
| Administrative & Professional | 1.4K | $30,373 | $27,297 |
| Facilities & Trades | 558 | $15,249 | $18,275 |
| Students & Trainees | 3.2K | $1,986 | $4,659 |
| Other | 9 | $1,203 | $1,822 |
| Affiliate & Status | 14 | $0 | $9,087 |
Salary distribution by faculty rank
Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2020. 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 | 261 | $70,450 | $79,892 | $84,451 | $93,517 |
| associate professor | 283 | $72,674 | $83,643 | $90,287 | $97,192 |
| professor | 256 | $88,608 | $103,637 | $112,193 | $132,935 |
| lecturer | 161 | $53,100 | $60,491 | $59,644 | $66,228 |
Top earners
- 1Pamela Whitten$493,901PRESIDENT
- 2Brian L Bohannon$355,500COACH
- 3Kathy S Schwaig$350,025PROVOST
- 4Phaedra Shaffer Corso$285,025VICE PRESIDENT
- 5Robin Cheramie Latino$266,884DEAN AC
- 6Patricia Chastain$250,025CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER
- 7Lance Burchett$250,025VICE PRESIDENT
- 8Dana R Hermanson$247,191PROFESSOR
- 9Milton Overton Jr$243,250DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
- 10Jeffrey Stepakoff$243,195EXEC DIRECTOR COLLDIV/SCH AC
- 11Brett E Katzman$241,455INTERIM ASSO/ASST DEAN AC
- 12Brian N Rutherford$240,599ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- 13Roger Clinton Tutterow$234,463PROFESSOR
- 14Ian Ferguson$232,879DEAN AC
- 15Benjamin P Scafidi$232,719PROFESSOR
- 16Shawn Duane Long$231,329DEAN AC
- 17Lynn M Disbrow$228,000DEAN AC
- 18Sheb Lee True$226,016VICE PROVOST
- 19Jon A Preston$225,420DEAN AC
- 20Steven Wilbur Smalt$218,690DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
- 21Mike L Dishman$217,172ASSOC/ASST PROVOST
- 22Velina Krastimirova Popova$216,492ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- 23Brenda R Stopher$214,250VICE PRESIDENT
- 24Jeffrey S Delaney$210,050CHIEF INFORMATION (IT) OFFICER
- 25James A Meurs$206,913ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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