Duckweed: April 8, 2008
A bit of dodgy duckweed for today…
Jim Brown got me thinking last week with his reference to LSU Head Coach Les Miles’ 3.75 Million Dollar salary. So this week’s slime of the moment is a simple comparison of how much higher athletic official pay is over professor pay at our state universities. Here’s Head Coach pay, full professor average pay, and average instructor pay in general (professor, associate, assistant, and instructor averaged together). Only 3 universities had numbers available on both, so here goes:
LSU
Head Coach: Les Miles
Current Pay: $3,751,000
Full Professor Pay: $99,300
Average Instructor Pay: $68,300
LA Tech
Head Coach: Jay Bicknell
Current Pay: $350,000
Full Professor Pay: $73,200
Average Instructor Pay: $55,200
UL-Lafayette
Head Coach: Ricky Bustle
Current Pay: $196,000
Full Professor Pay: $88,000
Average Instructor Pay: $60,800
Without anymore charts, just FYI the average head coach pay in Louisiana is around $350,000 per year ($180,000 without LSU’s pay skewing the average). The average instructor pay is around $60,000 (in fairness Tulane and Loyola skew that number higher than it would be with them excluded). With LSU being 1072% higher than the state average on Football pay, why are they only 14% higher than the state average on instructor pay?
This is a state school, and although LSU athletics is a money-maker, these are your tax dollars at work. Enjoy the game.
