Nick Saban is country's highest-paid public employee. Who is No. 2?

http://www.al.com/news/ ^ | 4/3/18 | Leada Gore

[BBell]

Nick Saban isn't just Alabama's highest-paid public employee. A new ranking shows he's the highest-paid public employee - by far - in the country.

GoBankingRates.com's ranking looked at the top-earning public employee in each state. In most cases, the person bringing home the biggest paycheck is a coach for a public university.

The rankings are based on 2017 figures and there have been some changes since it was calculated. For example, California's highest-paid employee, Jim Mora, earned $3.57 million a year before he was let go last year after the Bruins lost their third consecutive game to rival USC.

$11.1 million - Nick Saban, Alabama, University of Alabama football coach

$7.75 million - John Calipari, Kentucky, University of Kentucky basketball coach

$7 million - Jim Harbaugh, Michigan, University of Michigan football coach

$6.4 million - Urban Meyer, Ohio, Ohio State University football coach

$5.8 million - James Franklin, Pennsylvania, Penn State football coach

$5 million - Willie Taggart, Florida, Florida State football coach

$5 million - Kirk Ferentz, Iowa, University of Iowa football coach

$5 million - Scott Frost, Nebraska, Univeristy of Nebraska football coach

$5 million - Tom Herman, Texas, University of Texas football coach

$4.875 million - Chris Petersen, Washington, University of Washington football coach

$4.8 million - Bill Self, Kansas, Kansas's basketball coach

$4.2 million - Will Muschamp, South Carolina, University of South Carolina football coach

$3.8 million - Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee, University of Tennessee football coach

$3.75 million - Bob Huggins, West Virginia, University of West Virginia basketball coach

$3.7 million - Jim Mora, California, UCLA football coach (former),

$3.7 million - Kirby Smart, Georgia, University of Georgia football coach

$3.5 million - Chad Morris, Arkansas, University of Arkansas football coach $3.5 million - Ed Orgeron, Louisiana, Louisiana State University football coach

[BBell]

Here is the top 18. The top 50 is at the link.

There is only one women o the list.

44.$577,700 - Mary Nettleman, South Dakota, Dean, University of South Dakota School of Medicine

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Absolutely out-f***ing-rageous that there are public employees being paid millions of dollars...To do one of the most useless things on earth, coach amateur sports.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Somebody has to entertain the slobs on Saturday

[discostu]

If you want to make money make other people money. Sport is big business. They bring in lots of money, they get paid lots of money.

[wally_bert]

I get weird looks when I bring up these way overpaid parasites.

People wonder why I have contempt for sports.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Opiate of the masses.

[blam]

- Roll Tide -

[luckystarmom]

Saban and the Alabama football team bring in tons of money to the university, enough to fund wonderful academic scholarships including a full tuition scholarship to my daughter valued at over $100k. I love Nick Saban and the Bama football team! Roll Tide!

[John Milner]

Not accurate At least the source article.

Does not include Matt Campbell Iowa State Football coach who makes 3.5 million per year. Puts him in a ties for 17th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Campbell_(American_football_coach)

I suspect there are a lot of other coaches at public universities that make enough to be on this list but are not.

[Jolla]

public employees being paid millions of dollars

Pay them the state employee wage and let the alumni pick up the bonus all on the up and up.

[plain talk]

I am not surprised. Saban earns every penny of it.

The $11M is no real loss for the University of Alabama which generates about $100M in revenues from its football program. The Alabama football program is not only self-funded but it brings additional revenue to the university - about $16M profit. It’s a business.

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[Hot Tabasco]

Absolutely out-f***ing-rageous that there are public employees being paid millions of dollars..

I would agree but now that college sports has become a revenue generating business, the salary justifies the millions of dollars the football team brings in...........

[AppyPappy]

Let me know when they get to my name.

[Huskrrrr]

“Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time.

[snip]

The very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.

Patton

Applies also to sports teams, from the NFL all the way down to pee-wee football. There are very coaches that can take their teams to the heights that sports fans demand. Right or wrong, that’s the way it is.

[wally_bert]

I second that.

Universities crying poor, always having the hand out and then paying bloated salaries.

I was a lowly state employee who always got the line of no money for a raise doing a technical job. But heaven and earth gets moved for anything related to sports.

[mewzilla]

The 27 schools that make at least $100 million in college sports

Where's all this money going...

[FirstFlaBn]

Absolutely out-f***ing-rageous that there are public employees being paid millions of dollars...To do one of the most useless things on earth, coach amateur sports.

Maybe some actual facts will help you deal with your hissy fit. At my alma mater, the Athletic Association has made significant cash contributions to the university over the years; many millions of dollars - and that doesn't count financing arenas that are used for non-sports activities like graduation.

Formed soon after WWII, the AA pays all sports expenses out of its own revenues and finances its own capital expenditures. So, coaches are legally state employees (so the univ president has authority) , but get no money from the school.

My guess is just about every state school on that list has a similar arrangement.

I would say one of the most useless things on earth is dumbasses commenting unimpeded by facts.

[Moonman62]

Not a single calculus teacher on the list.

[pas]

Who does number 2 work for.