Salary Studies

USG 2019 Salary and Travel Expense Data

Compiled by the Georgia AAUP Vice President Abdul Zureick

The 2019 fiscal year salary and travel expense data of all twenty-six (26) USG institutions plus the public Georgia Military College was gathered for analysis.

All salaries were obtained from http://www.open.georgia.gov.

This database resulted in a total of 123,822 records categorized into 614 titles, some of which could not be matched with the 6/12/2018 USG published category names. [Any conference member wanting the full database should contact the conference.]

The salary tables represent the total payments made to individuals in a category during the fiscal year, and thus it does not reflect in any way the actual salary of the individual. There are 9 month, 10-month, and 12 month employees.

In the absence of information related to the monthly salary of each USG faculty and administrators, it is not possible to conduct any statistical analysis to illustrate salary dispersion/gap among various groups.

Note: some salaries of some presidents and coaches are paid from other sources, listed as “affiliate” in the open records database. We did not make any attempt to add those elements to our database. But it should be noted that [now former] Georgia State president Mark Becker receives a $500,000 bonus in addition to his $600,000 salary giving him “the highest annual compensation package of any system president, approximately $1.1 million.” That bonus is not listed in the open records database. On a related note, UGA head football coach Kirby Smart’s base salary of $500,000 is listed in our database. But the open records database notes his affiliate salary of more than $6 million.

Figure 1

This shows the number of titles (category names) corresponding to the number of individuals employed in 2019.

Table 1

This show ranges of annual salaries of all of those who made more than $25,000 in 2019.

Note: “Academic Services Professional” generally can be support professionals such as advisors under the umbrella of academic affairs. In Georgia, at the research universities, “Academic Services Professional” applies to individuals whose job is primarily administrative but who are qualified by degree credentialing to offer instruction and who may teach on a limited basis. Persons holding this title may not teach or conduct research more than 50% time.