Who are the highest-paid coaches in the UNC System?

As another weekend of college football looms and with college basketball season tipping off in late November, CBJ decided to check out the annual salaries paid to all of the coaches in the UNC System.

In a database here (https://bizj.us/1q6xo2), you’ll find the publicly disclosed salaries for 551 coaches in the UNC payroll system. Some of those coaches may still be collecting salaries related to contracts despite no longer being in their positions. The source for the data is the UNC System general administration. The data is from September.

The numbers here only include what the university pays them. The total compensation for many coaches at the system’s biggest programs is likely much higher; often additional funds come from private sources.

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For example, USA Today reports UNC head basketball coach Roy Williams has total annual compensation of $4.1 million in 2020. However, in the UNC System database, Williams is the eighth-highest paid coach with reported salary of $625,000.

No. 1 in the database is N.C. State head football coach Dave Doeren at $1.625 million. The top-paid coach at UNC Charlotte is Will Healy, head football coach. His base salary is $505,000, up from $450,000 in June 2019. Ron Sanchez, head coach of the men’s basketball team, has a base salary of $450,000.

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