These Are Texas’s Highest Paid Public College Officials For 2018

Texas’s highest-paid public-college official made over $2.5 million in 2018 — one of the five state college officials to make a seven-figure compensation, according to new figures from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The publication’s data with 2018 compensation figures was updated in July and includes information on nearly 250 public university systems from 2010-18. Overall, the 2018 database has compensation information for 269 college officials in the U.S.

In Texas, William H. McRaven, who was the chancellor of The University of Texas System until 2018, was the highest-paid public-college official in the 2018 calendar year. McRaven earned a base salary of $600,413, a bonus of $678,985 and over $1.2 million in “other pay,” bringing his total compensation up to $2,578,609. McRaven was also the highest paid public college official in the country, according to the database.

Other Texas public-college officials who earned salaries exceeding $1 million include Michael K. Young, president of Texas A&M University at College Station ($1.89 million), Renu Khator, system chancellor and campus president at the University of Houston ($1.39 million), John Sharp, chancellor of Texas A&M University system office ($1.35 million) and Robert L. Duncan, chancellor of Texas Tech University System ($1.35 million).

College officials who earned under $1 million but made the top 10 of the state’s highest paid are:

Tedd L. Mitchell, system chancellor and health sciences center president at Texas Tech ($982,692)
Brian McCall, chancellor at Texas State University system ($969,410)
Gregory L. Fenves, president of the University of Texas at Austin, $914,355
Lesa B. Roe, chancellor of the University of North Texas system, $754,350
Lawrence Schovanec, president of Texas Tech University, $629,685

View the full compensation data from The Chronicle of Higher Education.