Georgia Southern head football coach Chad Lunsford tops university's payroll in 2020
Barbara Augsdorfer
In 2020, Georgia Southern University had just over 7,100 employees on its payroll. Leading the earnings list is head football coach Chad Lunsford with a salary of $706,000. Lunsford is starting his fourth full season leading the Eagles’ football program in 2021. He had previously been an assistant and interim head coach at GSU.
University President Kyle Marrero is second on the list at $444,700.
The Savannah Morning News culled the Georgia Southern district employees' salary data for 2020 from the Open Georgia website at open.georgia.gov. In addition to educational staff, the list includes school maintenance workers and food service staff among others. For a line listing of who earned what pay, see this story online at savannahnow.com/news/.
Salary database:What Georgia Southern University employees earned in 2020
Twenty employees earned between $200,000 and just over $300,000, including three vice presidents, a provost, a chief hospital administrator, and men’s basketball head coach Mark Byington.
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Just over 300 employees (319 or 4.5%) earned between $100,000-$200,000, including numerous professors, assistant- and associate professors and coaching staff.
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More than 1,200 employees (1,225 or 17.6%) earned between $50,000 and $100,000, include numerous professors, assistant and associate professors and coaching staff.
More than 40% of GSU’s employees are students — such as graduate lab or teaching assistants — with salaries listed from a few hundred dollars up to three student interns who earned just over $25,000. Almost 3,100 (3,092 or 43.5%) of the university’s 7,104 employees are listed as “student employees” without names.
Barbara Augsdorfer is the education and nonprofits reporter for the Savannah Morning News. Reach her at BAugsdorfer@gannett.com or on Twitter @Babs7983.