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HBCU Money’s inaugural gathering of presidential salaries at the nation’s public HBCUs.

HIGHLIGHTS

• HBCU presidents’ salaries are 38 percent below the national median for public university presidents.
• America’s top 3 paid public university presidents’ (pictured below) compensation is equivalent of 61.7 percent of all reported public HBCU presidential compensation combined.

Elmira Mangum – Florida A&M University – $425 000

John Rudley – Texas Southern University – $390 000

David Wilson – Morgan State University – $382 500

Ronald Mason – Southern University Board of Supervisors – $374 000

Keith Miller – Virginia State University – $356 524

Harold Martin – North Carolina A&T University – $350 914

David Hall – University of Virgin Islands – $350 000

George Wright – Prairie View A&M University – $349 000

Glenda Glover – Tennessee State University – $305 415

James Lyons – University of the District of Columbia – $303 850

Gwendolyn Boyd – Alabama State University – $300 000

Carolyn Meyers – Jackson State University – $286 450

Debra Saunders-White – North Carolina Central University – $285 000

Rudy Chew – Medgar Evers College – $280 000

Mickey Burnim – Bowie State University – $278 256

Mortimer Neufville – Coppin State University – $265 000

Raymond Burse – Kentucky State University – $259 745

Juliette Bell – University of Maryland Eastern Shore – $255 000

Laurence Alexander – University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff – $250 000

Cheryl Dozier – Savannah State University – $245 000

Donald Reaves – Winston-Salem State University – $239 850**

James Anderson – Fayetteville State University – $239 590

Andrew Hugine – Alabama A&M University – $230 000

James Llorens – Southern University System President – $230 000

Larry Rivers – Fort Valley State University – $227 000

Everette Freeman – Albany State University – $225 000

Kent Smith, Jr. – Langston University – $220 000

Dwaun Warmack – Harris-Stowe State University – $217 000

Frank Pogue – Grambling State University – $200 000

Viktor Ukpolo – Southern University New Orleans – $187 000

Thomas Elzey – South Carolina State University – $170 000

Wayne Watson – Chicago State University – $146 363

Ray Belton – Southern University Shreveport – $142 311

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania – N/A*

Elizabeth City State University – N/A*

Norfolk State University – N/A*

Alcorn State University***

Central State University***

Delaware State University***

Lincoln University (MO)***

Lincoln University (PA)***

*Currently has no permanent president or chancellor.

** Steps down effective 12/31/2014

*** Unable to obtain 2013-2014 public records for presidential salary