Deans’ Salaries At Top Public B-Schools

School Dean School ranking Dean Salary Amount above/below median salary Cost of Living vs. national median
U.C. Berkeley Haas School Richard Lyons 10 $424,100 – $7,463 + 131%
University of Michigan Ross School Alison Davis-Blake 11 $597,212 + $165,649 + 11%
University of Virginia Darden School Robert Bruner 13 $518,900 + $87,337 + 23%
UCLA Anderson School Judy Olian 14 $510,667 (2013) + $79,104 + 64%
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Douglas Shackelford 18 $425,000 – $6,563 + 28%
University of Texas-Austin McCombs School Thomas Gilligan 19 $552,725 + $121,1621 + 7%
Indiana University Kelley School Idalene Kesner 20 $375,000 – $56,563 – 2%
University of Washington Foster School James Jiambalvo 23 $473,893 + $42,330 + 54%
Ohio State Fisher College of Business Anil Makhija 28 $444,449 + $12,887 – 18%
Wisconsin Business School Francois Ortalo-Magne 29 $426,606 – $4,957 + 16%
University of Maryland Smith School Alexander Triantis 30 $372,407 – $59,156 + 19%
Penn State Smeal College of Business Charles Whiteman 32 N/A N/A – 30%
Texas A&M Mays School Eli Jones 34 N/A (previous dean: $337,500 in 2014) N/A – 6%
Michigan State Broad School Sanjay Gupta 35 $350,198 – $81,365 – 4%
University of Minnesota Carlson School Sri Zaheer 36 $517,730 + $86,365 + 8%
Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Maryam Alavi 38 $550,000 + $118,437 – 3%
Purdue University Krannert School David Hummels (interim) 39 $349,531 – $82,032 – 2%
University of Illinois College of Business Larry DeBrock 40 $370,249 – $61,314 – 7%
Arizona State Carey School Amy Hillman 41 $420,250 – $11,313 +8%
University of Pittsburgh Katz School John Delaney (incoming July 2015) 43 N/A N/A – 16%
U.C. Davis Graduate School of Management Ann Stevens (interim) 44 $285,000 – $146,563 +73%
U.C. Irvine Merage School Eric Spangenberg 46 N/A (previous dean 2013: $511,392 N/A + 115%
University of Iowa Tippie School Sarah Gardial 49 $399,238 – $32,325 + 5%
University of Georgia Terry College of Business Benjamin Ayers 50 $359,000 – $72,563 – 1%
University of Florida Hough John Kraft 51 $276,756 – $154,807 – 10%

– cost of living data from Sperling’s Best Places

Source: Poets&Quants data

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