Best-paid college presidents

November 17, 2008

David J. Sargent, Suffolk University, $2.8 million
Henry Bienen, Northwestern, $1.74 million
Lee Bollinger, Columbia, $1.4 million
Shirley Ann Jackson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, $1.3 million

E. Gordon Gee, Ohio State, $1.3 million
Mark Emmert, University of Washington, $887,870
John Casteen III, University of Virginia, $797,048
Mark Yudof, University of Texas system, $786,045

Richard Levin, Yale, $955,407
Robert Brown, Boston University, $901,692
Susan Hockfield, MIT, $808,698
Ruth Simmons, Brown, $775,718
Jehuda Reinharz, Brandeis, $592,799
Joseph Aoun, Northeastern, $589,663
Lawrence Bacow, Tufts, $572,571
James E. Wright, Dartmouth, $569,761
Jack Wilson, UMass system, $473,200

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education

Note: The survey did not include compensation for Harvard's president, Drew Faust, who began after the year covered in the report.