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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.
$256,748,240
Total payroll
Salary by category Category People Median Average Legal 6 $114,078 $99,324 Executive & Leadership 489 $79,500 $94,037 Healthcare 12 $61,542 $64,627 Teaching Faculty 2.3K $55,298 $54,523 Public Safety 82 $51,278 $49,235
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 .
Rank People 25th pct Median Mean 75th pct assistant professor 297 $73,450 $80,933 $86,983 $96,372 associate professor 283 $76,453 $85,898 $92,106 $103,235 professor 274 $88,489 $105,698 $113,672 $128,682 lecturer 166 $56,174 $62,120 $61,686 $67,176
Top earners 1 $493,876 2 $358,000 3 $350,000 4 $332,197 5 $295,000 6 $285,000 7 $265,000 Highest h-index (field-unadjusted) 1 44K cites h 95 2 82K cites h 77 3 8
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