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College Hotline - Pac-12 football: Salaries for the head coaches

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Last week, USA Today obtained Stanford’s latest federal tax returns, which included coach David Shaw’s compensation for the 2014 season.

The development allows us to complete 11/12th of the updated salary picture for the Pac-12 head coaches:

We know every current coach’s base salary in real time, or close to real time, with the exception of USC’s newly-hired Clay Helton (see bottom).

Below are the updated numbers.

A few qualifiers:

*** In keeping with past practice, I have not included performance bonuses or deferred compensation. Deferred comp is real money, of course, but the nature of the payment process can vary, thus skewing real-time comparisons.

The preference here is to keep it simple: Base pay, base pay, base pay.

(If you’re interested in the full breakdown, check USA Today’s salary database, which offers the most comprehensive coverage of FBS salaries across the nation — and there’s nothing even close. USAT includes bonuses and factors deferred comp into its calculation.)

*** In an attempt to eliminate rumor and speculation, I have included links to 1) official documents or 2) media reports based on official documents/information provided by the school.


*** Base salaries are listed in order, but keep in mind that the years vary based on available information and contract reporting cycles.

In other words: It’s not entirely apples-to-apples.

1. Washington’s Chris Petersen
2016 base salary: $3.6 million
Source: Memorandum of Understanding (via Seattle Times).
Comment: On-field results steadily moving in line with the hefty compensation. If Petersen wins the North this season, UW might have to open the vault.

2. UCLA’s Jim Mora
2016 base salary: $3.45 million
Source: L.A. Times
Comment: Needs to reverse current trajectory or risk being labeled one of the conference’s most overpaid coaches.

3. Oregon’s Mark Helfrich
2016 base salary: $3.3 million
Source: Contract (via The Oregonian)
Comment: Needs to reverse current trajectory or risk being labeled one of the conference’s most overpaid coaches.

4. Arizona’s Rich Rodriguez
2015 base salary: $3.2 million
Source: USA Today
Comment: Includes $1.2 million in retention pay that takes the form of stock units. Exclude the stock units and RichRod’s base was approximately $2.2 million.

5. Arizona State’s Todd Graham
2016 base salary: $3.1 million
Source: AZCentral
Comment: Did we actually make it through an offseason without Graham getting a new deal? Has the same four-year conference record (23-13) as Mora.

6. Washington State’s Mike Leach
2015 base salary: $2.75 million
Source: Spokesman Review
Comment: Not that we’re keeping track, but Leach just beat four of the five higher-earning coaches. “AD Bill Moos, coach Leach’s agent is on line 1.”

7. (tie) Cal’s Sonny Dykes
2016 base salary: $2.65 million
Source: Bay Area News Group
Comment: Received a new deal in December that elevated him from the conference’s bottom tier but minimized Cal’s long-term risk. A win for both sides.

7. (tie) Stanford’s David Shaw
2014 base salary: $2.65 million
Source: USA Today
Comment: Figure comes from Stanford’s federal returns, which are reported on a delayed basis. Worth noting that Shaw earned a tick short of $4.1 million in 2014 when include bonuses and deferred comp included.

9. Utah’s Kyle Whittingham
2015 salary: $2.6 million
Source Salt Lake Tribune
Comment: He’s hardly the ninth-best coach in the league, but it’s tough to envision Utah ever being one of the top-paying gigs.

10. Oregon State’s Gary Andersen
2016 base salary: $2.55 million
Source: The Oregonian
Comment: That’s $1.275 million per victory based on ’15 results. Not sure we’ll see much movement on the value scale this fall.

11. Colorado’s Mike MacIntyre
2015 base salary: $2 million
Source: Denver Post
Comment: Status quo, at least until December.

*** Other

USC’s Clay Helton
Base salary: unknown
Comment: As a private school, USC was not obligated to release Helton’s compensation. And because the five -year deal (three years guaranteed, two optional) was agreed to last fall, it has not appeared in the school’s most-recent federal tax returns. I’d assume Helton’s base salary falls in the bottom half of the conference given that he was promoted from the interim role and had never been a head coach.

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