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10 highest paid employees at the University of Arizona
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10 highest paid employees at the University of Arizona

  • Jan 4, 2018
  • Jan 4, 2018 Updated Jan 5, 2018

Here's a look at the ten highest paid employees at the UA and their annual salary. These are their base, full-time salaries, and do not include bonuses and promotional deals.

10: Michael Fallon

Title: Chair, Internal Medicine

Annual salary: $680,000 

 

9: Guy Reed

Health Sciences Innovation Building topping-off

Guy Reed, dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine 

Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star

Title: Dean, College of Medicine-Phoenix Campus

Annual salary: $700,000

 

8: Steven Johnson

Title: Chair, Surgery 

Annual salary: $700,000

 

7: William Cance

William Cance
Courtesy of the UA

Title: Deputy Director, UACC Phoenix 

Annual salary: $700,000

 

6: Charles Bennett Cairns

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Dr. Charles Cairns, dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, speaks during a ceremony to celebrate the new Children's Postinfectious Autoimmune Encephlapothy Center of Excellence in 2016. 

Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star

Title: Dean, College of Medicine

Annual salary: $700,500

  

5: Robert Robbins

Dr. Robert Robbins

University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins stops to talk with a student after Friday’s presidential installation ceremony.

Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star

Title: President of the University 

Annual salary: $800,000 

4: Joe Garcia

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Dr. Joe G.N. "Skip" Garcia  

Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star

Title: Professor, Medicine 

Annual salary: $810,000

3: Leigh Neumayer

Dr. Leigh Neumayer

Dr. Leigh Neumayer, interim senior vice president of health sciences at the University of Arizona, works in her office in the College of Medicine. If offered the position on a permanent basis, “I would certainly consider it.”

Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star

Title: Interim Senior Vice President, Health Sciences 

Annual salary: $870,000

2: Sean Miller

University of Arizona vs North Dakota State

Basketball coach Sean Miller is one of the highest-paid employees at the UA. 

Photos by Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star

Title: Head men's basketball coach 

Annual Salary: $2,200,000

1: Rich Rodriguez

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Former Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez yells during a game against UCLA in October at Arizona Stadium. Rodriguez was fired Tuesday after his former assistant filed a $7.5 million notice of claim, alleging years of sexual harassment and a hostile work environment.

 
 
Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star

Title: Head football coach

Annual salary: 2,475,000

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