Academic Analysis
UGA

Department & college salaries

Median compensation of instructors who taught in each unit, by fiscal year. Attribution is by teaching activity, so this reflects teaching-faculty pay, not a unit’s full payroll.

Median salary by department
UnitFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020FY2019FY2018FY2017FY2016FY2015
Language and Literacy Educ$119,386$111,906$107,233$103,067$99,219$96,210$95,084$86,277$92,357$78,167$82,848
Political Science$127,313$124,370$107,645$113,026$102,349$101,016$105,775$103,147
School of Computing$125,000$128,276$118,834$132,978
Geography$126,559$125,082$120,938$118,582$113,773$120,670$105,908$96,403$104,597$93,546$86,800
Public Admin and Policy$144,895$149,000$134,461$133,470$129,779$143,870$136,444$211,034
$67.5K$98.4K$129.2K$160K$190.8K$221.7KFY2015FY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Language and Literacy EducPolitical ScienceSchool of ComputingGeographyPublic Admin and Policy

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