About the Data

Time: Spring 2021
Source: Florida State University System payroll via Florida Has a Right to Know
Excludes: Most athletic department salaries, especially at UF, FSU, and UCF. Also excludes some money from outside the payroll system, such as compensation paid the UF president from the UF Foundation.

100 Highest Paid UF Employees

The highest paid UF employee was David Nelson, whose annual pay was $1,030,000.

Many university employees are paid from more than one funding category, such as:
* Auxiliary
* Contracts and Grants
* Education and General

To calculate the top 100 table, all state funding sources in this payroll for each employees were summed in the total pay (tot_pay) column in the following table.

Entire table of top 100

name class_title tot_pay
DAVID NELSON PROFESSOR 1,030,000
MARK BLEIWEIS PROFESSOR 1,010,000
DARYOUSH TAVANAIEPOUR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 994,850
BRIAN HOH PROFESSOR 969,600
WESLEY FUCHS PROFESSOR 926,060
LEON HALEY PROFESSOR 909,000
PATRICK HAN UFHEALTH PHYSICIAN 900,000
THIAGO BEDUSCHI PROFESSOR 856,000
COLLEEN KOCH PROFESSOR 850,000
MARK SCARBOROUGH PROFESSOR 847,390
THOMAS BEAVER PROFESSOR 828,200
TOMAS MARTIN PROFESSOR 828,200
WILLIAM FRIEDMAN PROFESSOR 827,020
GILES PEEK PROFESSOR 808,000
MICHAEL MUNZ UFHEALTH PHYSICIAN 800,000
PAUL DOUGHERTY PROFESSOR 778,210
PHILIPP ALDANA PROFESSOR 776,890
KOUROSH TAVANAIEPOUR ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 750,001
TIAGO NOGUCHI MACHUCA ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 708,945
GILBERT UPCHURCH PROFESSOR 707,000
JACQUES FARKAS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 707,000
CHARLES GIBBS PROFESSOR 705,990
CHRISTOPHER COWEN SR. VICE PRESIDENT & CFO 700,000
LEIGH NEUMAYER PROFESSOR 700,000
THEODORE BASS PROFESSOR 683,823
JOHN PIRRIS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 666,348
JONATHAN LICHT PROFESSOR 666,348
TOM MITCHELL VICE PRESIDENT, DEV & ALUM AFF 644,765
ANTHONY MANCUSO PROFESSOR 638,113
LI-MING SU PROFESSOR 632,666
PAUL OKUNIEFF PROFESSOR 632,518
JAMIE CONTI EMINENT SCHOLAR 620,799
BRUCE MAST PROFESSOR 620,000
JOHN SMULIAN PROFESSOR 616,100
MIRZA ISLAM PROFESSOR 616,100
KELLY FOOTE PROFESSOR 609,728
RUI FERNANDES PROFESSOR 608,921
KETHANDAPATTI BALAJI PROFESSOR 606,000
PATRICK ANTONELLI PROFESSOR 605,417
TIRBOD FATTAHI PROFESSOR 601,194
THOMAS HUBER PROFESSOR 596,910
STEVEN HUGHES PROFESSOR 580,750
THOMAS READ PROFESSOR 580,750
JUAN ARANDA-AMADOR PROFESSOR 580,000
CHANDANA LALL PROFESSOR 575,700
JOHN DAVIS PROFESSOR 574,570
SONAL TULI PROFESSOR 574,394
TIMOTHY MOREY PROFESSOR 573,725
NANCY MENDENHALL PROFESSOR 566,279
JOSEPH COSTA PROFESSOR 563,959
DANIEL HOH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 560,025
ARSHAG MOORADIAN PROFESSOR 555,500
RICHARD VLASAK ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 555,157
KENNETH ANDREONI PROFESSOR 553,293
ADAM GITLIN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 550,000
JENNIFER HUNT PROFESSOR 550,000
JULIE SHANER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 550,000
MARTIN BACK PROFESSOR 550,000
RENEE GENOVA ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 550,000
SAILESH KONDA ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 549,459
THOMAS WRIGHT PROFESSOR 546,711
DUNBAR ALCINDOR ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 545,400
ALEXANDRA BEIER ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 545,000
NATHAN RANALLI ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 545,000
ROBERT ZLOTECKI PROFESSOR 543,566
HARI PARVATANENI PROFESSOR 539,531
STEVEN GODWIN PROFESSOR 534,862
SOHIT KHANNA ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 533,078
WILLIAM MENDENHALL PROFESSOR 532,412
GEORGE ARNAOUTAKIS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 530,250
PRADEEP KADAMBI PROFESSOR 530,000
SHAHLA MASOOD PROFESSOR 526,392
ALICIA MOHR PROFESSOR 526,210
CEDRIC TANKSON UFHEALTH PHYSICIAN 525,000
SABYASACHI MITRA PROFESSOR 525,000
ROBERT AMDUR PROFESSOR 517,393
DANIEL SIRAGUSA PROFESSOR 516,990
JERRY MATTEO PROFESSOR 512,616
CARY MEYERS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 512,575
OLUSOLA ODUNTAN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 512,070
MARK ATKINSON EMINENT SCHOLAR 505,401
ADAM POLIFKA ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 505,000
LANCE GOVERNALE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 505,000
RANDAL HENDERSON PROFESSOR 504,864
MARCO PAHOR PROFESSOR 504,009
JOSEPH TYNDALL PROFESSOR 503,001
SCOTT TEITELBAUM PROFESSOR 501,540
JOSEPH GLOVER PROFESSOR 501,163
CHARLES LANE SR. VICE PRESIDENT & COO 500,000
MAURICIO PIPKIN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 500,000
DAVID VUKICH PROFESSOR 499,823
LARRY CHIDGEY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 496,914
MARK HUDAK PROFESSOR 495,236
PAUL MONGAN PROFESSOR 494,890
MARK JOHNSON PROFESSOR 492,072
KEVIN BEHRNS CHIEF MED OFFICER & UFHEALTHPH 490,000
SHAWN LARSON ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 483,295
MARYAM RAHMAN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 482,780
LEILANI SELTZER UFHEALTH PHYSICIAN 482,000
ROBERT SMITH PROFESSOR 481,770

Top 500 Salaries, All Universities

Top 500 Paid Employees by University

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