Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban’s pay package is almost 20 times larger than Warhawks coach Todd Berry’s, according to compensation information compiled by USA Today.
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Saban again tops the annual list of highest-paid college football coaches, but his income on the 2015 list is actually smaller than it was the year before. Saban’s combined total pay came to $7,087,481, down $72,706 from $7,160,187 last year.
In contrast, Berry is the lowest-paid FBS coach among those whose pay packages are public, at $360,000.
First-year Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh narrowly made the cut as the only other $7 million man, his package totaling $7,004,000. Rounding out the top five: Ohio State’s Urban Meyer ($5.86 million), Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops ($5.4 million) and Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher ($5.15 million).
USA Today has been tracking coaches’ compensation, including the maximum amounts of bonus money coaches can get in their current contract years, since 2006. This year, it did a comprehensive analysis of incentives actually paid to public university coaches.
Of the coaches whose compensation was analyzed, 75 piled up 214 bonuses worth nearly $12.4 million. Missouri’s Gary Pinkel led that list, having received $900,000 in bonuses.
Further proof of the sport’s haves and have-nots, the highest-paid Group of 5 coach was Central Florida’s George O’Leary, who was No. 57 overall on the list, at $1.89 million.
