The economy staggered, President of the private colleges who enjoy inflicting simple and see the ranks of those who make at least $ 1 million swells from 33-36-including the President of the West Virginia schools are facing the issue of accreditation and has one of the official graduation rate worst in the country.
2009 average compensation for the leader in private schools is $ 386,000, up 2.2 percent from a year earlier, according to the latest annual analysis by The Chronicle of higher education. The figures cover the 519 College President in private with the total budget of at least $ 50 million, and reflect the most recent year for which data from the federal tax reports available.
Constantine Papadakis, Drexel University President who died in 2009, is the highest paid, though most of his $ 4.9 million of compensation came through life insurance and compensation paid before accrued to his wife. Papadakis, a salary of $ 196,000.
He was followed by William Brody Johns Hopkins ($ 3.82 million) and Donald v. DeRosa at the University of the Pacific ($ 2.36 million). There was still President in schools.
The President of the College that best-paid private usually earn more than their counterparts at the University. In March, the Mercury News released a separate salary surveys of University leaders, which include the 2009-2010. That list includes President only one with a total compensation of over $ 1 million-Gordon Gee from Ohio State, which gained $ 1.82 million.