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
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