Academic Analysis
Kennesaw State

Salary analytics

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

8.4K
Employees
$13,400
Median salary
$33,919
Average salary
$90,999
90th percentile
$285,937,150
Total payroll
$1,698,343
Total travel

Salary by category

CategoryPeopleMedianAverage
Legal4$138,204$132,346
Executive & Leadership539$82,742$96,041
Public Safety85$60,740$55,382
Teaching Faculty2.3K$60,200$57,995
Information Technology174$53,282$52,339
Research58$49,767$46,812
Healthcare17$48,927$50,615
Library61$37,976$37,125
Administrative & Professional1.4K$35,352$32,961
Athletics109$33,597$45,026
Facilities & Trades433$26,226$24,980
Affiliate & Status13$3,557$8,997
Engineering & Technical34$2,558$20,307
Students & Trainees3.2K$2,217$5,378
Other1$405$405

Salary distribution by faculty rank

Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2022. Ranks come from the normalized title. For the same view across all four institutions, see cross-institution distributions.

RankPeople25th pctMedianMean75th pct
assistant professor299$79,679$88,165$95,271$106,950
associate professor270$81,435$91,453$98,866$108,591
professor282$93,926$110,634$118,715$134,673
lecturer214$60,775$67,622$67,739$75,239

Top earners

  1. 1$467,886
  2. 2$335,592
  3. 3
    Ivan Pulinkala
    INTERIM PROVOST
    $330,000
  4. 4$328,011
  5. 5
    Phaedra Shaffer Corso
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $322,500
  6. 6$300,000
  7. 7$270,200
  8. 8
    Brett E Katzman
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $269,323
  9. 9
    Sheb Lee True
    ASSOC/ASST PROVOST
    $260,616
  10. 10
    Aaron D Howell
    CHIEF BUSINESS/FINANCE OFFICER
    $260,400
  11. 11$255,200
  12. 12
    Patricia Chastain
    CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER
    $255,200
  13. 13$255,200
  14. 14
    Lance Burchett
    VICE PRESIDENT
    $255,000
  15. 15$251,392
  16. 16
    Pamela B Cole
    ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
    $250,200
  17. 17
    Jeffrey Stepakoff
    EXEC DIRECTOR COLLDIV/SCH AC
    $248,145
  18. 18$247,663
  19. 19$246,954
  20. 20
    Milton Overton Jr
    CHIEF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATOR
    $244,413
  21. 21$244,396
  22. 22$241,189
  23. 23$238,856
  24. 24$235,177
  25. 25
    Timothy P Blumentritt
    ASSOCIATE DEAN AC
    $233,281

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