Academic Analysis
Kennesaw State

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

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Legal7$90,149$96,746
Executive & Leadership549$77,341$89,271
Public Safety83$54,513$52,828
Engineering & Technical14$53,897$59,256
Teaching Faculty2.1K$52,538$52,174
Information Technology247$48,426$44,285
Athletics76$46,361$52,909
Research30$42,050$44,094
Healthcare8$35,235$52,716
Library61$31,030$37,809
Administrative & Professional1.4K$30,373$27,297
Facilities & Trades558$15,249$18,275
Students & Trainees3.2K$1,986$4,659
Other9$1,203$1,822
Affiliate & Status14$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.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor261$70,450$79,892$84,451$93,517
associate professor283$72,674$83,643$90,287$97,192
professor256$88,608$103,637$112,193$132,935
lecturer161$53,100$60,491$59,644$66,228

Top earners

  1. 1$493,901
  2. 2$355,500
  3. 3$350,025
  4. 4
    Phaedra Shaffer Corso
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $285,025
  5. 5$266,884
  6. 6
    Patricia Chastain
    CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER
    $250,025
  7. 7
    Lance Burchett
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $250,025
  8. 8$247,191
  9. 9
    Milton Overton Jr
    DIRECTOR DIV/DPT AD
    $243,250
  10. 10
    Jeffrey Stepakoff
    EXEC DIRECTOR COLLDIV/SCH AC
    $243,195
  11. 11
    Brett E Katzman
    INTERIM ASSO/ASST DEAN AC
    $241,455
  12. 12
    Brian N Rutherford
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $240,599
  13. 13$234,463
  14. 14$232,879
  15. 15$232,719
  16. 16$231,329
  17. 17$228,000
  18. 18
    Sheb Lee True
    VICE PROVOST
    $226,016
  19. 19$225,420
  20. 20
    Steven Wilbur Smalt
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $218,690
  21. 21
    Mike L Dishman
    ASSOC/ASST PROVOST
    $217,172
  22. 22
    Velina Krastimirova Popova
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $216,492
  23. 23
    Brenda R Stopher
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $214,250
  24. 24
    Jeffrey S Delaney
    CHIEF INFORMATION (IT) OFFICER
    $210,050
  25. 25
    James A Meurs
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
    $206,913

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