From the Sacramento Bee: Justin Wilcox, UC Berkeley’s head football coach, earned the title of highest paid state employee last year, earning $4.7 million, according to the latest salary data. UCLA’s head basketball coach, Michael Cronin, came in second after earning $4.1 million in 2024. Head football and basketball coaches at public universities are often the most well paid government employees across the country because those programs generate an enormous amount of revenue for the university system, said Roger Noll, a professor of economics emeritus at Stanford University.
For example, UC Berkeley and UCLA each took in more than $45 million in revenue from their football teams in 2023, according to the latest numbers from the U.S. Department of Education. Wilcox and Cronin made substantially less than the previously highest-paid coach. UCLA paid its former football coach, Chip Kelly, $7.1 million in 2023. Kelly is currently the offensive coordinator for the Las Vegas Raiders...
Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article312447469.html.
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