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New Tax Law Takes Aim at Higher Education’s Millionaires Club

By  Adam Harris and 
Dan Bauman
December 19, 2017
The four top-earning private-college leaders in 2015 were ( left to right) Nathan Hatch, Wake Forest U.; James Wagner, Emory U.; C.L. Max Nikias, U. of Southern California; and Amy Gutmann, U. of Pennsylvania. Their pay would subject each of their institutions to a new tax under legislation about to be enacted.
©WFU, Ken Bennett; Dustin Thomas Chambers for The Chronicle; U. of Southern California; Daniel Acker, Bloomberg via Getty Images
The four top-earning private-college leaders in 2015 were ( left to right) Nathan Hatch, Wake Forest U.; James Wagner, Emory U.; C.L. Max Nikias, U. of Southern California; and Amy Gutmann, U. of Pennsylvania. Their pay would subject each of their institutions to a new tax under legislation about to be enacted.

This article has been updated (12/20/2017, 11:05 a.m.) to include a list of academic medical professionals affected by the new tax law.

An overhaul of the nation’s tax code, which is expected to be passed by Congress and signed by President Trump, includes a new revenue source: taxing highly paid employees of nonprofit organizations.

The bill would impose a 21-percent tax on annual compensation in excess of $1 million paid to the five highest-paid employees of a nonprofit group — including college presidents, chancellors, and coaches. For medical professionals, however, compensation that is directly related to medical or veterinary services would not be taken into account.

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The four top-earning private-college leaders in 2015 were ( left to right) Nathan Hatch, Wake Forest U.; James Wagner, Emory U.; C.L. Max Nikias, U. of Southern California; and Amy Gutmann, U. of Pennsylvania. Their pay would subject each of their institutions to a new tax under legislation about to be enacted.
©WFU, Ken Bennett; Dustin Thomas Chambers for The Chronicle; U. of Southern California; Daniel Acker, Bloomberg via Getty Images
The four top-earning private-college leaders in 2015 were ( left to right) Nathan Hatch, Wake Forest U.; James Wagner, Emory U.; C.L. Max Nikias, U. of Southern California; and Amy Gutmann, U. of Pennsylvania. Their pay would subject each of their institutions to a new tax under legislation about to be enacted.

This article has been updated (12/20/2017, 11:05 a.m.) to include a list of academic medical professionals affected by the new tax law.

An overhaul of the nation’s tax code, which is expected to be passed by Congress and signed by President Trump, includes a new revenue source: taxing highly paid employees of nonprofit organizations.

The bill would impose a 21-percent tax on annual compensation in excess of $1 million paid to the five highest-paid employees of a nonprofit group — including college presidents, chancellors, and coaches. For medical professionals, however, compensation that is directly related to medical or veterinary services would not be taken into account.

Lawmakers have long sought to rein in what they see as excessive executive compensation at colleges. Some version of a tax on high levels of nonprofit pay has bounced around for several years. In 2013 the Internal Revenue Service released the results of its Colleges and Universities Compliance Project, which randomly selected institutions and examined their federal tax filings, known as Form 990s, for compensation that could be deemed unreasonable under federal law.

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The next year, a draft of tax-reform legislation included a provision similar to the one in the current bill; it levied a 25-percent tax on compensation in excess of $1 million.

The House version of the current legislation would have placed a 20-percent tax on the compensation. The tax was raised by one percentage point in the House-Senate conference committee.

Colleges would be on the hook for the tax, but it is unclear when or how they would be responsible for paying it.

So who would the tax affect?

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According to an analysis by The Chronicle, America’s private, nonprofit colleges had 158 million-dollar employees in the 2015 calendar year, excluding medical staff members. The highest earners primarily included chief executives, athletics staff members, and investment officers. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the men’s basketball team at Duke University, topped the list, earning $7.4 million in 2015.

The Chronicle’s analysis is based on the latest available Form 990s of the 500 private, nonprofit colleges with the largest endowments. Reportable taxable compensation is the sum of base salaries, bonuses, and other compensation paid to employees by the institution and its related organizations. It remains to be seen whether the IRS will use the same Form 990s to levy this new tax.

These compensation figures might deviate from those reported as part of The Chronicle’s annual look at private-college executive compensation, which includes nontaxable benefits in the final figures. Some nonprofit colleges, which don’t report the value of their endowments to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, were excluded from our analysis. Private nonprofit colleges that cite a religious exemption from filing the Form 990 were also excluded.

A Tax on Colleges’ Millionaire Coaches and Other Officials

InstitutionEmployeeTitlePosition Type2015 Taxable Compensation
Duke U. Michael W. Krzyzewski Basketball coach Athletic $7,425,847
Baylor U. Arthur Briles Head football coach Athletic $6,191,611
Stanford U. David Shaw Director of football Athletic $5,112,814
Texas Christian U. Gary A. Patterson Head football coach Athletic $5,040,526
Columbia U. Nirmal Narvekar President of investment management Investment Officer $4,312,957
U. of Notre Dame Scott C. Malpass Vice president and chief investment officer Investment Officer $4,271,125
Yale U. David F. Swensen Chief investment officer Investment Officer $3,954,681
Wake Forest U. Nathan O. Hatch President CEO $3,941,320
Columbia U. Peter Holland Executive vice president for investment management Investment Officer $3,871,602
Georgetown U. John R. Thompson III Men’s basketball coach Athletic $3,762,479
Stanford U. John Powers President and chief executive officer of the Stanford Management Company Investment Officer $3,639,039
Princeton U. Andrew Golden President of Princeton U. Investment Company Investment Officer $3,522,336
Emory U. James W. Wagner President CEO $3,436,163
Northwestern U. William H. McLean Vice president and chief investment officer Investment Officer $3,349,297
Northwestern U. Patrick W. Fitzgerald II Head coach Athletic $3,260,314
U. of Southern California Stephen Sarkisian Head football coach Athletic $3,223,261
U. of Pennsylvania Amy Gutmann President CEO $3,047,847
St. John’s U. (N.Y.) Steve Lavin Head basketball coach Athletic $3,002,034
U. of Southern California C.L. Max Nikias President CEO $2,977,697
U. of Notre Dame John B. Swarbrick Jr. Athletic director Athletic $2,974,420
Duke U. Neal F. Triplett Chief investment officer Investment Officer $2,966,341
Yale U. Dean J. Takahashi Senior director of investments Investment Officer $2,955,474
Baylor U. Scott Drew Head men’s basketball coach Athletic $2,819,122
U. of Southern California Patrick C. Haden Athletic director Athletic $2,725,985
U. of Chicago Robert J. Zimmer President CEO $2,722,029
U. of Miami Alfred J. Golden Head football coach Athletic $2,629,961
Vanderbilt U. Derek Mason Head coach Athletic $2,582,026
Princeton U. Jonathan Erickson Managing director of Princo Investment Officer $2,576,521
Duke U. David N. Cutcliffe Coach Athletic $2,554,393
U. of Rochester Douglas W. Phillips Senior vice president, institutional resources Investment Officer $2,550,365
Villanova U. Jerold T. Wright Men’s basketball coach Athletic $2,513,338
U. of Southern California Monte Lane Kiffin Former head football coach Athletic $2,486,600
U. of Dayton Daniel J. Curran President CEO $2,427,985
Boston College Stephen R. Addazio Coach Athletic $2,397,526
Princeton U. James Millar Managing director of Princo Investment Officer $2,373,234
Bradley U. Joanne K. Glasser Former president CEO $2,349,226
U. of Richmond Christopher Mooney Basketball coach Athletic $2,272,476
Texas Christian U. Trent A. Johnson Men’s basketball coach Athletic $2,263,745
Boston U. Robert A. Brown President CEO $2,214,926
Vanderbilt U. Kevin E. Stallings Basketball coach Athletic $2,207,142
Bowdoin College Paula Volent Senior vice president for investment Investment Officer $2,177,120
Baylor U. Kim Mulkey Head women’s basketball coach Athletic $2,154,316
U. of Chicago Mark A. Schmid Vice president and chief investment officer Investment Officer $2,127,287
Columbia U. Lee C. Bollinger President CEO $2,088,896
Syracuse U. James A. Boeheim Jr. Head men’s basketball coach Athletic $2,064,820
Providence College Edward Cooley Men’s basketball coach Athletic $2,057,611
U. of Notre Dame Charles J. Weis Former head football coach Athletic $2,054,742
Columbia U. Timothy M. Donohue Managing director of Princo Investment Officer $2,010,939
Stanford U. Tara Vanderveer Head women’s basketball coach Athletic $1,997,993
Juilliard School Joseph W. Polisi President CEO $1,955,842
Thomas Jefferson U. Stephen K. Klasko President CEO $1,926,944
Drexel U. John A. Fry President CEO $1,899,337
Gonzaga U. Mark Few Head men’s basketball coach Athletic $1,890,744
Savannah College of Art and Design Paula S. Wallace President CEO $1,890,740
U. of Notre Dame Michael D. Donovan Managing director of investments Investment Officer $1,846,629
Northwestern U. Thomas G. Cline Vice President and General Counsel Other administrator $1,795,928
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seth Alexander President of MIT Investment Management Company Investment Officer $1,753,921
U. of Tulsa Frank Haith Head basketball coach Athletic $1,706,244
New School David E. Van Zandt President CEO $1,701,619
Emory U. Mary L. Cahill Vice president of investments and chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,699,419
Harvard U. Richard H. Vietor Harvard Business School professor Non-Medical Faculty $1,694,295
Clarkson U. Anthony G. Collins President CEO $1,686,597
U. of Pennsylvania Peter Ammon Chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,680,605
Nova Southeastern U. George L. Hanbury II President CEO $1,665,026
Vassar College Catharine Bond Hill President CEO $1,649,281
Rice U. David W. Leebron President CEO $1,646,924
U. of Dayton Ryan J. Miller Head men’s basketball coach Athletic $1,630,680
Xavier U. (Ohio) Christopher Mack Head men’s basketball coach Athletic $1,614,968
Syracuse U. Scott Shafer Head football coach Athletic $1,601,174
U. of Notre Dame Brian Kelly Head football coach Athletic $1,591,133
Seton Hall U. Kevin Willard Head men’s basketball coach Athletic $1,566,619
Northwestern U. John A. Capelli Investment Manager Investment Officer $1,564,024
Rush U. Peter W. Butler President CEO $1,560,408
U. of Richmond Robin Blandford Chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,519,656
St. John’s U. (N.Y.) Christopher P. Mullin Head men’s basketball coach Athletic $1,495,395
Northwestern U. James J. Phillips Vice President of Athletics Athletic $1,483,766
U. of Miami James J. Larranaga Head basketball coach Athletic $1,482,575
U. of Miami Donna E. Shalala President CEO $1,466,927
Cornell U. Albert J. Edwards Chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,446,320
Quinnipiac U. John L. Lahey President CEO $1,437,496
Boston College James P. Christian Men’s basketball coach Athletic $1,412,703
Harvard U. Drew Gilpin Faust President CEO $1,404,848
U. of Miami Mark Diaz Vice president for budget and planning Financial Officer $1,400,426
Wellesley College Deborah F. Kuenstner Chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,399,422
Duke U. Alice E. Gould Investment manager Investment Officer $1,399,170
Johns Hopkins U. Grossi Richard Senior associate dean for finance and administration Financial Officer $1,396,217
U. of Notre Dame Muffet McGraw Head basketball coach Athletic $1,394,176
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Shirley Ann Jackson President CEO $1,392,864
Dartmouth College Pamela Peedin Chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,387,602
Texas Christian U. Victor J. Boschini Jr. Chancellor CEO $1,385,919
St. Edward’s U. George E. Martin President CEO $1,376,482
Butler U. Chris Holtmann Head men’s basketball coach Athletic $1,362,602
Vanderbilt U. Nicholas S. Zeppos Chancellor CEO $1,357,322
U. of Tulsa Phillip Montgomery Head football Coach Athletic $1,347,022
Northwestern U. Morton O. Schapiro President CEO $1,339,506
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Steven Marsh Managing director of MIT Investment Management Company Investment Officer $1,339,186
Tulane U. Jeremy Crigler Chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,339,000
Northwestern U. Christopher R. Collins Head Coach Athletic $1,338,837
Northeastern U. Joseph E. Aoun President CEO $1,311,729
Baylor U. Kenneth W. Starr President and chancellor CEO $1,302,774
Creighton U. Gregory McDermott Athletic coach Athletic $1,296,273
Yale U. Timothy R. Sullivan Investments director Investment Officer $1,289,777
Tulane U. Curtis Johnson Head football coach Athletic $1,289,000
California Institute of Technology Richard S. Ellis Professor of Astronomy Non-Medical Faculty $1,283,881
Harvard U. John A. Deighton Harvard Business School professor Non-Medical Faculty $1,281,787
Marist College Dennis J. Murray President CEO $1,268,387
Baylor U. Phil Bennett Assistant football coach Athletic $1,245,094
New York Institute of Technology at Old Westbury Edward Guiliano President CEO $1,229,451
Boston College Eugene B. Defilippo Athletic director Athletic $1,227,300
Johns Hopkins U. Ronald J. Daniels President CEO $1,226,162
U. of Rochester Joel Seligman President CEO $1,224,732
Johns Hopkins U. Kathryn J. Crecelius Chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,206,169
Brown U. Joseph Dowling Vice president and chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,195,617
Duke U. Richard H. Brodhead President CEO $1,182,780
U. of Notre Dame Michael P. Brey Head basketball coach Athletic $1,176,281
Washington U. in St. Louis Mark S. Wrighton President CEO $1,168,047
Carnegie Mellon U. Ilker Baybars Dean of Qatar campus Other administrator $1,164,643
U. of Chicago Joanna Rupp Managing director of Princo Investment Officer $1,162,987
U. of Chicago Beth A. Harris Interim director of Laboratory Schools Other administrator $1,160,959
Duke U. Ralph Snyderman Chancellor emeritus Former President $1,159,956
Saint Joseph’s U. (Pa.) Philip Martelli Head men’s basketball coach Athletic $1,156,674
MCPHS U. Charles F. Monahan Jr. President CEO $1,156,263
Carnegie Mellon U. Subra Suresh President CEO $1,145,100
Stanford U. Martin shell Vice President for Development Other administrator $1,143,964
U. of Chicago Michael Edleson Investment chief risk officer Investment Officer $1,133,610
U. of Chicago Patrick O’Hara Chief operating officer of office of investments Investment Officer $1,128,642
George Washington U. Steven Knapp President CEO $1,124,075
Case Western Reserve U. Barbara R. Snyder President CEO $1,123,238
Northwestern U. Harisha Koneru Haigh Managing Director of Investments Investment Officer $1,106,687
Yale U. Peter Salovey President CEO $1,103,747
Vanderbilt U. Anders W. Hall ‎Vice chancellor for investments and chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,099,741
Texas Christian U. Christopher Del Conte Athletic director Athletic $1,098,428
Hofstra U. Stuart Rabinowitz President CEO $1,096,874
Princeton U. Edward Karns Managing firector of Princo Investment Officer $1,096,405
U. of Pennsylvania Craig Carnaroli Executive vice president Other administrator $1,095,458
Texas Christian U. James R. Hille Chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,091,538
U. of Miami Joseph T. Natoli Senior vice president for Business and finance and chief financial officer Financial Officer $1,089,404
Rice U. Allison Thacker Chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,088,502
Duke U. Joanne McCallie Coach Athletic $1,085,224
U. of Notre Dame Brian VanGorder Assistant coach and football coordinator Athletic $1,084,448
Duke U. Kevin M. White Vice president and director of athletics Athletic $1,078,317
High Point U. Nido Qubein President CEO $1,066,336
Harvard U. David F. Hawkins Harvard Business School professor Non-Medical Faculty $1,057,519
California Institute of Technology Charles Elachi Vice President and director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Other administrator $1,042,327
U. of Tulsa Steadman Upham President CEO $1,040,790
Yale U. Alan Forman Investments director Investment Officer $1,038,255
American U. Cornelius M. Kerwin President CEO $1,030,811
Howard U. Wayne Frederick President CEO $1,029,671
Brown U. Christina Hull Paxson President CEO $1,028,530
Belmont U. Robert Fisher President CEO $1,024,766
Vanderbilt U. Brett C. Sweet Vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer Financial Officer $1,024,567
Boston U. Clarissa Hunnewell Chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,024,527
Williams College Collette Chilton Chief investment officer Investment Officer $1,020,615
Saint Leo U. Arthur F. Kirk Jr. President CEO $1,015,447
Florida Institute of Technology Anthony J. Catanese President CEO $1,014,656
Harvard U. Elon Kohlberg Harvard Business School professor Non-Medical Faculty $1,012,599
Wilmington U. (Del.) Jack P. Varsalona President CEO $1,005,207
Dartmouth College Philip Hanlon President CEO $1,001,088

Academic Medical Professionals Are Also Affected by the Tax Law

The effect of the new tax on the pay of medical-faculty members is less straightforward than it is for other higher-education executives. In 2015, 93 academic medical personnel earned more than $1 million. Pay in excess of that amount for work related to medical services would be exempt from the new tax. But if the pay is related to medical-school or hospital management, it would be subject to the tax. Here are million-dollar employees affiliated with academic medical programs and hospitals. Because The Chronicle can’t be certain of their exact roles within their medical systems, it is unclear how their compensation would affect their universities’ tax liability.

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InstitutionEmployeeTitle2015 Taxable Compensation
Cornell U. Zev Rosenwaks Director and physician-in-chief of Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine $6,294,195
Columbia U. Lee Goldman Executive vice president for health sciences $4,707,601
U. of Pennsylvania Thomas Beeman Chief operating officer of UPHS regional operations $4,460,192
Columbia U. David N. Silvers Clinical professor $4,437,855
Cornell U. Hey-Joo Kang Associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology and clinical reproductive medicine $3,885,998
Cornell U. Theodore Schwartz Neurological surgeon $3,639,038
Emory U. Michael J. Mandl President and CEO of Emory Healthcare $3,536,350
Cornell U. Steven D. Spandorfer Associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive medicine $3,506,559
Cornell U. Philip E. Steig Professor and chairman of department of neurological surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College $3,336,632
Johns Hopkins U. Walter Stark Eye surgeon $3,070,562
Emory U. S. Wright Caughman Former executive vice president for health affairs $2,861,661
Cornell U. Antonio M. Gotto Provost for medical affairs and dean emeritus $2,842,320
U. of Southern California Vaughn A. Starnes Distinguished professor and chair of department of surgery $2,806,750
U. of Southern California Louis A. Vandermolen Clinical professor of medicine $2,720,449
Boston U. Tony Tannoury Professor and physician $2,628,382
U. of Pennsylvania Ralph Muller CEO of U. Of Pennsylvania Health System $2,610,717
U. of Pennsylvania Larry Jameson Executive vice president of UPHS and dean of medical school $2,353,804
Rush U. Larry J. Goodman Chief executive officer $2,313,090
U. of Southern California Inderbir Singh Gill Chair and distinguished professor of urology $2,296,435
Columbia U. Jeffrey W. Moses Professor of medicine $2,289,056
Columbia U. Craig R. Smith Professor of surgery $2,168,259
U. of Chicago Kenneth S. Polonsky Executive vice president for medical affairs $2,010,871
Columbia U. Gregg Stone Professor of surgery $1,997,792
U. of Pennsylvania Thomas L. Spray Surgeon $1,956,485
Vanderbilt U. Paul A. Thomas Associate professor of orthopaedic surgery $1,903,381
Cornell U. Daniel M. Knowles Chair and professor of pathology $1,903,260
U. of Pennsylvania Michael Sean Grady Neurosurgeon $1,899,896
Stanford U. Frank Hanley Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery $1,887,989
Vanderbilt U. Jeffrey R. Balser Dean of School of Medicine and president and CEO of Vanderbilt U. Medical Center $1,880,679
Johns Hopkins U. Paul Rothman Dean of medical faculty $1,880,496
Stanford U. Yiping Woo Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery $1,868,251
Thomas Jefferson U. Robert H. Rosenwasser Physician $1,852,302
Emory U. Shervin V. Oskouei Physician $1,846,573
Emory U. John M. Rhee Physician $1,722,959
Stanford U. Lloyd B. Minor Dean of School of Medicine $1,716,675
Cornell U. Laurie H. Glimcher Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College $1,693,721
U. of Pennsylvania William C. Welch Neurosurgeon $1,685,296
U. of Pennsylvania Garry L. Scheib Chief operating officer of U. of Pennsylvania Health System $1,652,013
U. of Southern California Thomas E. Jackiewicz Senior vice president and CEO of Keck Medicine of USC $1,645,686
U. of Pennsylvania Paul Marcotte Neurosurgeon $1,633,120
U. of Miami Nestor De La Cruz-Munoz Associate professor of surgery $1,607,638
U. of Rochester Marc D. Brown Professor of dermatology $1,583,657
U. of Rochester Sherrif F. Ibrahim Assistant professor In department of dermatology $1,577,691
Vanderbilt U. Charles W. Pinson Professor of surgery $1,574,247
U. of Pennsylvania N. Scott Adzick Surgeon $1,571,778
U. of Miami P. Goldschmidt-Clermont Senior vice president for medical affairs and dean $1,558,918
U. of Miami Lee D. Kaplan Professor of orthopaedics $1,514,503
Vanderbilt U. Michael J. Mcnamara Oncologist $1,475,495
Yale U. Khalid M. Abbed Chief of Spine Section in department of neurosurgery $1,466,655
U. of Pennsylvania Peter D. Quinn Senior Vice President, U. of Pennsylvania Health System, Vice Dean for Professional Services $1,461,768
Thomas Jefferson U. Marc R. Rosen Physician $1,435,151
Stanford U. Gary Steinberg Chair of Neurosurgery $1,417,919
Vanderbilt U. Todd R. Wurth Orthopaedic surgeon $1,376,343
Thomas Jefferson U. Laurence M. Merlis Executive vice president and chief operating officer of Jefferson Health $1,362,015
Johns Hopkins U. Daniele Rigamonti Medical chief of staff, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare $1,360,303
Emory U. Christian P. Larsen Dean of the School of Medicine $1,342,122
Thomas Jefferson U. James Harrop Physician $1,339,978
U. of Rochester Michael D. Maloney Doctor in sports-medicine program $1,331,635
U. of Pennsylvania Kevin Mahoney Executive vice president, U. of Pennsylvania Health System $1,316,417
Emory U. Walter J. Curran Physician $1,306,297
Johns Hopkins U. Michael Lim Neurosurgeon $1,288,943
Emory U. John William Xerogeanes Physician $1,284,383
U. of Miami Dipen J Parekh Surgeon of urologic oncology $1,272,315
Johns Hopkins U. Paul Sponseller Professor of urology and orthopaedic surgery $1,271,386
U. of Rochester Brent Dubeshter Professor of obstetrics and gynecology $1,263,694
U. of Chicago Valluvan Jeevanandam Chief of cardiac and thoracic surgery $1,251,942
U. of Pennsylvania Keith Kasper Chief financial officer of U. of Pennsylvania Health System $1,239,567
U. of Miami David A. Lubarsky Chief medical and system integration officer $1,226,469
Emory U. Daniel L. Barrow Physician $1,200,871
Boston U. Pushkar Mehra Professor and oral surgeon $1,197,374
U. of Rochester Ilya Voloshin Professor of orthopaedic surgery $1,196,873
Johns Hopkins U. Henry Brem Neurosurgeon $1,165,088
Rush U. Demetrius Lopes Physician $1,161,427
U. of Chicago Arieh Shalhav Professor of surgery and section chief of urology $1,157,637
Thomas Jefferson U. Jorge Eller Physician $1,153,611
Thomas Jefferson U. Mark L. Tykocinski Provost and executive vice president for academic affairs $1,152,838
Duke U. A. Eugene Washington Chancellor for health affairs $1,138,182
Tulane U. John W. Thompson Director of forensic neuropsychiatry and vice chairman of department of psychiatry and neurology $1,115,000
Rush U. Richard Byrne Physician $1,114,763
Yale U. Masoud Azodi Professor of obstetrics and gynecology $1,106,961
Rush U. Vincent Traynelis Physician $1,099,152
Rush U. John P Mordach Senior vice president and chief financial officer $1,098,694
U. of Miami Alan S. Livingstone CEO of Uhealth Clinical $1,087,409
U. of Southern California Carmen A. Puliafito Dean of Keck School Of Medicine $1,059,473
Rush U. Michael Liptay Physician $1,047,687
Boston U. William Creevy Professor and physician $1,047,209
U. of Pennsylvania Elizabeth B. Johnston Executive director of clinical practices $1,045,700
Yale U. Peter G. Schulam Chair of department of urology $1,039,080
Cornell U. Stephen M. Cohen Provost and executive vice dean for administration and finance at Weill Cornell Medical College $1,036,929
Rush U. Bruce M. Elegant Vice president for hospital operations $1,034,219
Thomas Jefferson U. James Evans Physician $1,029,725
Boston U. Robert Nicoletta Surgeon $1,002,082
Emory U. John T. Fox Former President and CEO of Emory Healthcare $1,000,858

Adam Harris is a breaking-news reporter. Follow him on Twitter @AdamHSays or email him at adam.harris@chronicle.com.

Dan Bauman is a reporter who investigates and writes about all things data in higher education. Tweet him at @danbauman77 or email him at dan.bauman@chronicle.com.

A version of this article appeared in the January 5, 2018, issue.
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Dan Bauman is a reporter who investigates and writes about all things data in higher education. Tweet him at @danbauman77, or email him at dan.bauman@chronicle.com.
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