The Highest-Paid Public Employee in Your State Is Probably a Football or Basketball Coach – IOTW Report

The Highest-Paid Public Employee in Your State Is Probably a Football or Basketball Coach

CNS: A college football or basketball coach was the highest-paid public employee in 39 of the 50 states in 2016. Only four of these coaches earned less than a million dollars last year.

In fact, the average annual compensation package for coaches at major universities is estimated to be $1.18 million.

When the top-paid public employee in a state is not the coach of a college sports team, he or she usually works in the medical field at a university-run hospital or is the head of a university or college.

Here are the top ten coaches who are the highest-paid public employees in their respective states, as reported by ESPN.com:

  1. Jim Harbaugh, University of Michigan football coach: $9 million,
  2. John Calipari, University of Kentucky basketball coach: $ 7.1 million,
  3. Nick Saban, University of Alabama football coach: $6.0 million,   MORE

13 Comments on The Highest-Paid Public Employee in Your State Is Probably a Football or Basketball Coach

  1. Even more startling is the list of retired state workers by annual income.
    Former gym teachers are making 6 figure pensions in my state with severely underfunded pension funding.

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