The data were compiled by the Chronicle from tax data and included 482 private colleges that had at least $50 million expenditures in 2009-10.
The highest paid university president is Constantine Papadakis of Drexel University, who was paid $4,912,127 in 2009. The presidents of Johns Hopkins University, University of the Pacific and Northwestern University follow. The highest paid Ivy League president is Richard Levin of Yale, who was paid $1,627,649 in 2009.
Of the Ivy League schools, Princeton pays its president the fourth highest, slightly higher than the salaries of the Harvard and Cornell presidents.
The report also concluded that, for institutions that do pay their presidents salaries, presidents are paid up to eight times as much as regular professors. The Ivy League schools have, in general, the highest average professor compensation of the schools analyzed.
On average, while the president-to-faculty salary ratio was roughly equally distributed over different demographics, Catholic schools paid presidents and professors the least, while research universities had the widest spread of salaries, including some of the highest.
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