With an earnings of $4 million, Wake Forest University President, Nathan O. Hatch was the highest-paid private university head in the United States, according to a new survey of executive compensation at private universities by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
How much America’s top 50 highest-paid private-university presidents make?
Of his total compensation of $4,004,617, Nathan O. Hatch’s base salary was $839,944 in 2015. He was paid a $92,000 bonus and received $3,009,376 in other compensation.
James W. Wagner, the former leader of Emory University in Atlanta, came in 2nd with an earnings of $3.5 million.
At nearly $3.2 million, C.L. Max Nikias, president of the University of Southern California was the third-highest paid president in the United States, followed by the University of Pennsylvania’s Amy Gutmann, and the University of Chicago’ Robert J. Zimmer.
Private university presidents earned an average of $569,932 in 2015 — up 9% from the year before, the study found.
America’s highest-paid private-college presidents:
- Nathan O. Hatch, Wake Forest University in North Carolina
Estimated earning: $4,004,617 - James W. Wagner, Emory University in Atlanta
Estimated earning: $3,510,451 - C.L. Max Nikias, University of Southern California
Estimated earning: $3,182,364 - Amy Gutmann, University of Pennsylvania
Estimated earning: $3,086,395 - Robert J. Zimmer, University of Chicago
Estimated earning: $2,864,887 - Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia University
Estimated earning: $2,507,637 - Robert A. Brown, Boston University
Estimated earning: $2,483,146 - Daniel J. Curran, University of Dayton
Estimated earning: $2,442,168 - Joanne K. Glasser, Bradley University
Estimated earning: $2,350,851 - David E. Van Zandt, New School
Estimated earning: $2,081,584 - Joseph W. Polisi, Juilliard School
Estimated earning: $1,983,788 - Stephen K. Klasko, Thomas Jefferson University
Estimated earning: $1,944,932 - John A. Fry, Drexel University
Estimated earning: $1,913,914 - Paula S. Wallace, Savannah College of Art and Design
Estimated earning: $1,901,846 - Catharine Bond Hill, Vassar College
Estimated earning: $1,774,446 - David W. Leebron, Rice University
Estimated earning: $1,730,998 - Anthony G. Collins, Clarkson University
Estimated earning: $1,720,982 - George L. Hanbury II, Nova Southeastern University
Estimated earning: $1,686,385 - Victor J. Boschini Jr., Texas Christian University
Estimated earning: $1,578,750 - Peter W. Butler, Rush University
Estimated earning: $1,572,095 - Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University
Estimated earning: $1,565,251 - Morton O. Schapiro, Northwestern University
Estimated earning: $1,527,994 - Donna E. Shalala, University of Miami
Estimated earning: $1,472,442 - John L. Lahey, Quinnipiac University
Estimated earning: $1,455,168 - Joseph E. Aoun, Northeastern University
Estimated earning: $1,449,254 - Shirley Ann Jackson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Estimated earning: $1,425,669 - George E. Martin, St. Edward’s University
Estimated earning: $1,397,470 - Nicholas S. Zeppos, Vanderbilt University
Estimated earning: $1,384,985 - Kenneth W. Starr, Baylor University
Estimated earning: $1,362,956 - Ronald J. Daniels, Johns Hopkins University
Estimated earning: $1,336,294 - Dennis J. Murray, Marist College
Estimated earning: $1,317,122 - Joel Seligman, University of Rochester
Estimated earning: $1,296,635 - Richard H. Brodhead, Duke University
Estimated earning: $1,257,980 - Edward Guiliano, New York Institute of Technology at Old Westbury
Estimated earning: $1,246,951 - Steven Knapp, George Washington University
Estimated earning: $1,224,555 - Mark S. Wrighton, Washington University in St. Louis
Estimated earning: $1,219,667 - Subra Suresh, Carnegie Mellon University
Estimated earning: $1,205,311 - John L. Hennessy, Stanford University
Estimated earning: $1,202,934 - Charles F. Monahan Jr., MCPHS University
Estimated earning: $1,173,931 - Peter Salovey, Yale University
Estimated earning: $1,157,488 - Barbara R. Snyder ,Case Western Reserve University
Estimated earning: $1,152,836 - Julio Frenk, University of Miami
Estimated earning: $1,136,364 - Stuart Rabinowitz, Hofstra University
Estimated earning: $1,125,942 - R. Gerald Turner, Southern Methodist University
Estimated earning: $1,088,246 - Nido Qubein, High Point University
Estimated earning: $1,080,026 - Christina Hull Paxson, Brown University
Estimated earning: $1,067,491 - Philip Hanlon, Dartmouth College
Estimated earning: $1,067,366 - Robert Fisher, Belmont University
Estimated earning: $1,059,664 - Steadman Upham., University of Tulsa
Estimated earning: $1,056,885 - Cornelius M. Kerwin, American University
Estimated earning: $1,050,610