UConn Coaches Top List of Highest Paid State Employees
by Christine Stuart | February 24, 2009 5:33 PM
Posted to Labor
After this weekend’s press conference it should come as no surprise that University of Connecticut Men’s Basketball Coach Jim Calhoun is the state’s highest paid employee with a salary of $1.62 million in 2008.
According to the state Comptroller’s office, UConn coaches round out the top three list followed only by their colleagues at the University of Connecticut Health Center and UConn’s President Michael Hogan.
UConn football coach Randy Edsall was the second highest paid at $1.38 million and Women’s Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma followed at $1.31 million.
Dr. John Nulsen, UConn Health Center’s Director of Fertility Services, comes in fourth with a salary of $884,408 followed by his colleague in the dermatology department, Dr. James Whalen, who made $840,662 and Dr. Hilary C. Onyiuke, head of neurosurgery, who made $830,728 in 2008.
Coming in seventh is UConn’s President Michael Hogan who made $613,908 in 2008 and rounding out ninth place is UConn’s Athletic Director Jeff Hathaway who made $553,919.
The University of Connecticut Health Center doctors account for most of the highest wage earners in the top 25, except for Connecticut State University Chancellor David Carter Sr. who earned $398,509 in 2008.
Click here to read the top 250 wage earners and here for the list of agency codes.
Comments (7)
Posted by: Tessa Marquis | February 24, 2009 7:54 PM
Jim "Not One Penny" Calhoun? How funny. And M. Jodi Rell thought Ken Krayeske was a pain in *her* neck?
Posted by: ctkeith | February 25, 2009 7:52 AM
I'm sure all those on this list would tell you they love their jobs and would do them for half the money.
I suggest we see if that's actually the case because even if these salaries were halved they'd still be outrageous and factually unsupportable
Posted by: Daniel Casey | February 25, 2009 3:15 PM
Calhoun is a waste--his sense of entitlement is disgusting and an insult to any University. All collegiate sports should be intramural and all coaches should be volunteer. Otherwise you get these knuckledragging, mouth-breathing 'students' bullied through by asses like Calhoun.
Posted by: Paul | February 27, 2009 10:55 AM
What planet are these people living on?
$1.6 Mil is just criminal. A good old boys & girls club out of touch with reality.
They make the argument that the coach attracts students to the school. I didn't know American Universities had a shortgage of applicants. Then they say that sports brings in MILLIONS of dollars to universities. What about the millions of dollars that the universities spend on practice fields, Stadiums, marketing, recuiting, Staff salaries, Fitness centers on and on and on...
If sports were truely net profitable let the alumni associations underwrite them and get them out of the budget.
Posted by: Marty | March 2, 2009 3:46 PM
If you add up all the salaries for just UCONN for sports the tax payer is spend way too much and they are not bringing in the money to support the sport. Is UCONN a college or a sports club for high priced good old boy's. I think I don't have to ask that question now do I ?
And just think the President of the USA get's $ 475,000 a year is there something wrong here ?
Posted by: Gene Pizzo | March 22, 2009 11:31 AM
You really can't have a valid argument against these salaries on an individual basis because all of these people make salaries equal or less than similar positions nationwide and if Jim Calhoun had a better publicist that person might have urged him to say so rather than losing his temper. The scientists and physicians on the list make salaries that are actually somewhat less than institutions elsewhere but if you want to make an argument the argument must be against physician, scientist and sports coaches generally - but if you do make that argument remember at least that scientists make poverty wages for a good ten years after college and only then if they show extraordinary promise as productive scientists do they make a starting wage equivalent to a nurse or pharmacist while these same scientists are responsible for all the innovations in technology and health care that grow the nation and save thousands of lives.
Posted by: thegrove21 | March 28, 2009 5:03 PM
One must understand that all of you northern ...ahem yankee catholic sobs all have that sense of entitlement...we deserve more Calhoun is such a cliche for all of the North....all of you are like him...and Geno... .you yankees deserve every bit of what you get...losers