How Presidents’ Pay Compares with Professors' Salaries - Chronicle of Higher Ed

These data show the compensation received in 2009 by 519 chief executives at 482 private, nonprofit colleges in the United States. The Chronicle compiled compensation data from the Internal Revenue Service’s Form 990, which is filed by most major nonprofit entities. We obtained each institution’s form from the college or from GuideStar, an organization that posts the documents online. Our analysis for 2009 included private colleges that were classified as research, master’s, and baccalaureate institutions by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2010, and had at least $50-million in expenditures in 2009-10. The data exclude colleges that claimed religious exemption from filing the Form 990.