Academic Analysis
Kennesaw State

Salary analytics

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

7.6K
Employees
$15,496
Median salary
$33,676
Average salary
$87,394
90th percentile
$256,748,240
Total payroll
$127,660
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Legal6$114,078$99,324
Executive & Leadership489$79,500$94,037
Healthcare12$61,542$64,627
Teaching Faculty2.3K$55,298$54,523
Public Safety82$51,278$49,235
Information Technology159$50,117$47,996
Research45$47,591$42,830
Library57$46,348$42,393
Athletics91$38,560$45,904
Administrative & Professional1.4K$34,197$30,369
Facilities & Trades381$22,724$23,587
Engineering & Technical17$19,511$35,803
Affiliate & Status7$15,639$15,740
Students & Trainees2.7K$2,135$5,750
Other4$1,778$1,667

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2021. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor297$73,450$80,933$86,983$96,372
associate professor283$76,453$85,898$92,106$103,235
professor274$88,489$105,698$113,672$128,682
lecturer166$56,174$62,120$61,686$67,176

Top earners

  1. 1$493,876
  2. 2$358,000
  3. 3$350,000
  4. 4$332,197
  5. 5$295,000
  6. 6
    Phaedra Shaffer Corso
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $285,000
  7. 7$265,000
  8. 8
    Brett E Katzman
    INTERIM ASSO/ASST DEAN AC
    $259,201
  9. 9
    Aaron D Howell
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
    $255,200
  10. 10$253,445
  11. 11$251,939
  12. 12
    Lance Burchett
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $250,000
  13. 13
    Patricia Chastain
    CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER
    $250,000
  14. 14$248,132
  15. 15$244,666
  16. 16
    Jeffrey Stepakoff
    EXEC DIRECTOR COLLDIV/SCH AC
    $243,145
  17. 17
    Milton Overton Jr
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $239,200
  18. 18
    Sheb Lee True
    VICE PROVOST
    $234,966
  19. 19$232,682
  20. 20$232,493
  21. 21
    Pamela B Cole
    ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
    $228,025
  22. 22
    Brenda R Stopher
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $227,325
  23. 23$225,000
  24. 24
    Lucy F Ackert
    PROFESSOR
    $220,593
  25. 25
    Steven Wilbur Smalt
    DEPT CHAIR/HEAD AC
    $217,640

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