State Public Employee Name Job Title Employer Total 2018 Pay Rank

Kentucky John Calipari Head basketball coach University of Kentucky $9,276,643 1

Alabama Nick Saban Head football coach University of Alabama $8,307,000 2
Ohio Urban Meyer Head football coach Ohio State University $7,600,000 3
Michigan Jim Harbaugh Head football coach University of Michigan $7,504,000 4
Texas Jimbo Fisher Head football coach Texas A&M University $7,500,000 5
Georgia Kirby Smart Head football coach University of Georgia $6,603,600 6
South Carolina Dabo Swinney Head football coach Clemson University $6,543,350 7
Florida Dan Mullen Head football coach University of Florida $6,070,000 8
Illinois Lovie Smith Head football coach University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign $5,000,000 9
Nebraska Scott Frost Head football coach University of Nebraska $5,000,000 10
Oklahoma Mike Gundy Head football coach Oklahoma State University $5,000,000 11
Pennsylvania James Franklin Head football coach Pennsylvania State University $4,800,000 12
Iowa Kirk Ferentz Head football coach University of Iowa $4,700,000 13
Washington Chris Petersen Head football coach University of Washington $4,377,500 14
Virginia Tony Bennett Head basketball coach University of Virginia $4,150,000 15
Kansas Bill Self Head basketball coach University of Kansas $4,066,857 16
West Virginia Bob Huggins Head basketball coach West Virginia University $3,865,000 17
Tennessee Jeremy Pruitt Head football coach University of Tennessee $3,846,000 18
Indiana Jeff Brohm Head football coach Purdue University $3,800,000 19
Utah Kyle Whittingham Head football coach University of Utah $3,787,917 20
Wisconsin Paul Chryst Head football coach University of Wisconsin-Madison $3,750,000 21
Minnesota P.J. Fleck Head football coach University of Minnesota $3,550,000 22
Arkansas Chad Morris Head football coach University of Arkansas $3,500,000 23
Louisiana Ed Orgeron Head football coach Louisiana State University $3,500,000 24
California Chip Kelly Head football coach University of California, Los Angeles $3,300,000 25
North Carolina Roy Williams Head basketball coach University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $3,298,778 26
Mississippi Matt Luke Head football coach University of Mississippi $3,000,000 27
Colorado Mike MacIntyre Head football coach University of Colorado Boulder $2,878,500 28
Maryland Mark Turgeon Head basketball coach University of Maryland, College Park $2,847,232 29
Oregon Dana Altman Head basketball coach University of Oregon $2,822,000 30
Missouri Cuonzo Martin Head basketball coach University of Missouri $2,800,000 31
Arizona Sean Miller Head basketball coach University of Arizona $2,700,000 32
New Jersey Chris Ash Head football coach Rutgers University-New Brunswick $2,200,000 33
Idaho Bryan Harsin Head football coach Boise State University $1,650,010 34
Wyoming Craig Bohl Head football coach University of Wyoming $1,412,000 35
Connecticut Randy Edsall Head football coach University of Connecticut $1,100,000 36
Massachusetts Michael Collins Chancellor of the University ofUniversity
Massachusetts
of Massachusetts
Medical School and senior vice$1,069,752
president for health sciences
37
New York Thomas J. Quatroche Jr. President and CEO Erie County Medical Center Corp. $876,442 38
New Mexico Bob Davie Head football coach University of New Mexico $823,740 39
Hawaii Jay Boughanem Staff surgeon Hawaii Health Systems Corp. $600,000 40
Nevada Tony Sanchez Head football coach University of Nevada, Las Vegas $600,000 41
Vermont Frederick C. Morin III Dean of the College of Medicine
University of Vermont $582,254 42
New HampshireJames W. Dean Jr. President University of New Hampshire $445,000 43
South Dakota T.J. Otzelberger Head basketball coach South Dakota State University $400,000 44
Alaska James Roland Johnsen President University of Alaska Statewide System $384,600 45
Rhode Island David M. Dooley President University of Rhode Island $380,000 46
Maine Joan Ferrini-Mundy President University of Maine $350,000 47
Montana Laurence Hubbard President and CEO Montana State Fund $342,308 48
Delaware Mark T. Brainard President Delaware Technical Community College $245,955 49
North Dakota Larry P. Nybladh Superintendent of schools Grand Forks County $231,210 50