Fifty-eight college presidents now take home
more than a million dollars each year in total compensation. Topping the list is Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch, who earned $4 million in 2015 (the last year for which data is available).
The average total compensation for college presidents was $569,932.
The 58 college presidents in the million dollar club is up from 39 in 2014 and 32 in 2013.
A report on Bloomberg News stated that “total compensation includes base pay, bonus pay, nontaxable benefits (for example, health benefits, life insurance, and dependent care) and other pay (such as severance payments, spending accounts and club dues).”
“As college presidents' compensation has risen, so have tuition and student loan debt.” Bloomberg reports that “in 2004, about $364 billion in student loans was outstanding. That figure has more than tripled to $1.3 trillion.”
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