Syracuse University’s top salary earners in 2017 include SU men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim, head football coach Dino Babers and professor of law emeritus William Banks, according to the university’s 990 form.

The salaries of SU’s top officials were disclosed Friday in SU’s 990 form, a document filed annually by nonprofit organizations.

Boeheim was the highest-paid university employee in 2017, earning about $2.5 million. His yearly income decreased from about $2.6 million in 2016. Babers followed shortly behind Boeheim both in 2017 and 2016, taking in about $2.2 million in 2017, less than the $2.3 million he earned in 2016. 

Banks is the founding director of SU’s Institute for National Security and Counterrorism, run by the College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. In 2017, his salary was $954,274 — higher than that of Chancellor Kent Syverud.

Syverud was among those with the largest salaries at the university. His base salary was $721,610 in 2017, near his 2016 base salary of about $730,000. Syverud’s 2017 salary was 30% less than the average 2016 salaries of research institution similar to SU, according to a document provided by Sarah Scalese, SU’s senior associate vice president for university communications.     

Syverud’s non-taxable benefits totaled $67,080, the majority of which includes the value of the Chancellor’s House at 300 Comstock Ave. The chancellor’s total 2017 compensation was 47% less than the average 2016 salaries of research institutions similar to SU. 

Here are the other top 2017 salary earners, in descending order:

• Quentin Hillsman, women’s basketball head coach
• John Wildhack, athletic director
• Gwenn Judge, former interim chief financial officer and senior vice president
• Liz Liddy, former interim vice chancellor and provost
• George Langford, former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
• Ryan Williams, former associate vice president for enrollment

SU’s endowment for 2017 was $1,328,147,566, about an 8% increase from 2016. 

Published on May 25, 2019 at 5:21 pm

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