{"id":1164,"date":"2010-11-17T13:28:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salaryfor.com\/blog\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2010-11-17T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T18:30:14","slug":"college-presidents-earning-more-than-1-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/college-presidents-earning-more-than-1-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"College Presidents Earning More Than $1 Million Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"College Presidents Earning More Than $1 Million Dollars\" src=\"http:\/\/college.monster.com\/nfs\/college\/attachment_images\/0001\/6971\/iStock_000005535622XSmall.jpg-1_crop380w.jpg?1257190089\" alt=\"23 College Presidents Paid More Than $1M\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Even as the numbers of students declines in colleges (mainly due to a large number of foreign students no longer coming to the US) the pay packages for many of these institution&#8217;s presidents are escalating. In many cases, running one of these institutions of higher learning can end up being more lucrative than running a Fortune 500 company. \u00a0Just 8 years ago, there were no US college presidents earning 7 figures and now there are 23 that are bringing home the bacon millionaire style. \u00a0Maybe future episodes of &#8220;MTV&#8217;s Cribs&#8221; will feature some of the homes of a few of these top earning college administrators:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">R. Gerald Turner,\u00a0<strong>Southern Methodist University President<\/strong> Total compensation: $2,774,000<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nicholas S. Zeppos,\u00a0<strong>Vanderbilt University Chancellor<\/strong> Total compensation: $2,407,588<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John L. Lahey,\u00a0<strong>Quinnipiac University President<\/strong> John L. Lahey, Quinnipiac University President<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lee C. Bollinger,\u00a0<strong>Columbia University President<\/strong> Total compensation: $1,753,984<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shirley Ann Jackson,\u00a0<strong>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President<\/strong> Total compensation: $1,655,630<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Steadman Upham,\u00a0<strong>University of Tulsa President<\/strong> Total compensation: $1,622,229<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Richard C. Levin,\u00a0<strong>Yale University President<\/strong> Total compensation: $1,530,008<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nancy Cantor,\u00a0<strong>Chancellor and President of Syracuse University<\/strong> Total compensation: $1,386,464<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Amy Gutmann,\u00a0<strong>University of Pennsylvania President<\/strong> Total compensation: $1,367,004<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John Sexton,\u00a0<strong>New York University President<\/strong> Total compensation: $1,366,878<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">James L. Doti,\u00a0<strong>Chapman University President<\/strong> Total compensation: $1,254,991<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Richard M. Joel,\u00a0<strong>Yeshiva University President<\/strong> Total compensation: $1,211,429<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salaryfor.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color: #3399cc;\">click here for more salary information<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as the numbers of students declines in colleges (mainly due to a large number of foreign students no longer coming to the US) the pay packages for many of these institution&#8217;s presidents are escalating. 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