Ivy Presidents Make More Than You, But Less Than Peers

by James Yu | November 23, 2008 at 6:30 pm

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently released its annual survey of college presidential pay, and - surprise, surprise - in 2006-7, Ivy League presidents ranked among the nation's top earners. Of the Ancient Eight, Columbia's Lee Bollinger topped the list, receiving a whopping $1,411,894 in pay and benefits, followed by Amy Gutmann (Penn) with $1,088,786; Richard Levin (Yale) with $955,407; Ruth Simmons (Brown) with $775,718; Shirley Tilghman (Princeton) with $742,444; David Skorton (Cornell) with $730,604; and James Wright (Dartmouth) with $569,761. (Derek Bok, who was the interim president at Harvard that year, earned $0.)

Nevertheless, only Bollinger and Gutmann cracked the private school top ten, coming in at fourth and eighth places respectively. (For whatever reason, the Chronicle places private and public school executives in distinct categories; combine the lists together and Bollinger falls to fifth, and Gutmann, to tenth.)

If the highest salaries and benefits aren't going to Ivy presidents, then to whom do they go? Find out (the rather surprising results) after the jump.

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