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Data current — salary through FY2025; course schedules through Spring 2026.
← Kennesaw State Salary analytics Kennesaw State University compensation by fiscal year, taxonomy category, and top earners.
$242,274,562
Total payroll
Salary by category Category People Median Average Legal 5 $111,800 $101,924 Executive & Leadership 589 $78,554 $89,239 Engineering & Technical 14 $50,723 $58,937 Information Technology 281 $48,426 $45,219 Public Safety 83 $48,242 $47,035
Salary distribution by faculty rank Total pay per person in each academic rank, FY2018. 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 234 $66,635 $75,944 $80,471 $90,835 associate professor 279 $72,382 $82,617 $90,431 $97,248 professor 247 $88,883 $106,273 $111,655 $129,962 lecturer 143 $49,437 $58,345 $61,094 $68,106
Top earners 1 $365,291 2 $309,517 3 $296,422 4 $277,724 5 $247,671 6 $240,699 7 $236,385 Highest h-index (field-unadjusted) 1 44K cites h 95 2 82K cites h 77 3 8
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