Georgia Tech's employees and Institute spending together generate — in total economic output across all 12 of Georgia's economic development regions.
Georgia Tech's economic footprint reaches all 12 of Georgia's economic development regions — through the employees who live and spend in local communities, and through the Institute's own spending with suppliers and vendors. Use the impact layer switch to explore each, toggle gross / net, and click any region for its FY25 numbers.
Impact basis:
Net state appropriationsNet removes the share of revenue funded by state appropriations.
Total economic impact direct + indirect + induced
Impact layer:
What's included. These figures now cover both Georgia Tech employees' local impact and the impact of Institute spending. Use the impact layer switch on the map to explore each; the headline totals above combine both.
Gross vs. net. Figures default to gross impact. Switch to net to remove the share of impact funded by state appropriations.
These figures represent the "traditional" upstream economic impact. Downstream measures — the impact of Georgia Tech's research, innovation, and entrepreneurship — are being developed to provide a comprehensive view of the Institute's total impact.
Select a region on the map to view its Georgia Tech employee economic impact for FY25.
Compare the 12 regions
Total economic output by region, FY25 — click a bar to select a region
Full impact table
Direct · Indirect · Induced · Total▸
Georgia Tech's total FY25 statewide economic impact, decomposed by impact type. These rows sum to the total.
Definitions & Methodology
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Types of Impact
Direct Impacts
The initial economic activity that results from changes in production or expenditures by producers and/or consumers.
Indirect Impacts
The economic activity that results from local industries buying goods and services from other local industries. This cycle of spending continues until all the money leaks out from the regional economy.
Induced Impacts
The economic activity that results from the spending of employees' labor income. This cycle of household spending continues until all the money leaks out from the regional economy.
Key Measures
Economic Output / Final Demand
Final value of industry production. For manufacturing companies, output is sales plus/minus changes in inventory. For service sectors, output is equal to sales. For retail and wholesale trade companies, output equals gross margin, not gross sales.
Value Added
The difference between an industry's output and the cost of its intermediate inputs. This includes employee compensation, taxes on production, and gross operating surplus. This is the measure of the contribution to GDP made by the industry.
Wages / Income
All forms of employment income, including employee compensation and proprietor income. Employee compensation is the total payroll cost paid by the employer including wages and salary, all benefits (health, retirement, etc.) and employer-paid payroll taxes (social security, unemployment, etc.).
Gross, Net & Sources of Impact
Gross vs. Net Impact
Gross impact is Georgia Tech's total economic footprint. Net impact removes the portion funded by state appropriations to isolate the activity attributable to the Institute's other (non-state) funding.
Employee Impact
The compensation Georgia Tech pays to the 21,606 employees who live in Georgia, plus the additional (induced) income and jobs created when those employees spend their pay in local economies.
Institute-Spending Impact
The activity generated by Georgia Tech's own spending: supplier and vendor purchases (indirect) and the household spending those support (induced). Direct on-campus operations are largely centralized and reported in the statewide totals.
How to read this: The headline figures combine Georgia Tech's total statewide economic impact — direct operations and payroll, supplier purchases (indirect), and the household spending they support (induced). The map explores two layers: where Georgia Tech's 21,606 Georgia employees live and spend, and where the Institute's spending generates supplier and household activity. "Net" figures remove the share of FY25 revenue funded by state appropriations. Source: Georgia Tech Center for Economic Development Research.
Downstream impact captures what Georgia Tech sets in motion beyond campus — the patents, licensed technologies, startups, and federal innovation funding that flow from Institute research into the economy. It is built on a tiered certainty framework: hard, annually-auditable counts are reported separately from broader modeled estimates, each labeled with its level of confidence, so a direct count is never blended with an estimate.
Tier 1 · Counted
Directly counted, standardized, refreshed annually. High certainty. Pairs one-for-one with the upstream impact.
Tier 2 · Matched
Built from matched administrative data with stated assumptions. Medium certainty. In development.
Tier 3 · Modeled
Modeled or survey-based diffusion effects, run as a periodic deep-dive study. Directional.
Preliminary — alumni-founded companies.
These figures cover companies founded by Georgia Tech alumni. They are not
Georgia Tech spin-outs, and no causal claim is made: this is activity at
alumni-founded firms, reported separately from the Institute’s own output.
Licensed-IP and faculty-founded companies (Tier 2) are not yet included. Figures
are lower bounds and will be restated — see the notes below the charts.
Equity capital raised per year
Georgia-headquartered alumni-founded companies · equity rounds only
