Data App: More University Pay - Reeve Hamilton, Matt Stiles and Kosaku Narioka, Texas Tribune The top professors and administrators at Texas universities routinely earn between $250,000 and $500,000, while presidents and chancellors make up to about $900,000 and top coaches haul in far more, according to salary data for more than a dozen universities and university systems added today to The Texas Tribune's public employee salary database.
The top administrator paycheck belongs to Scott Ransom, the president of the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center, who earns $904,562 — 20 percent more than the $750,000 salary of University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa.
