A few outliers among chief executives received more in annual compensation than most faculty members earn in a lifetime. See what other chief executives were paid, and what backgrounds new presidents and state higher-education executive officers brought to their jobs.
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Seventeen presidents or chancellors of public universities or systems had total compensation of $1 million or more in the 2018 calendar year.
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Kenneth W. Starr, of Baylor University, was the highest-paid chief, with most of his compensation originating from a severance agreement.
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Median salaries for college presidents were far higher at private nonprofit independent doctoral institutions than at their public counterparts.
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Of 59 state higher-education executive officers who held office in 2017, 81 percent had previous postsecondary-education experience.
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More than three-quarters of the chief executives were hired externally, and more than a third were women.
