re: Nick Saban is the highest-paid public employee in America: Here are numbers 2-10

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Highest-paid employees from states where a coach isn't the top wage earner

Kayvan Khiabani, professor of surgery, University of Nevada Reno, Nevada - $987,638
David Engle, neurosurgeon, Hawaii Health Systems Corp., Hawaii - $786,000
Joshua Wynn, Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Science, North Dakota - $674,587
Lewis Pasternak, anesthesiologist and CEO of Stony Brook University Hospital, New York - $673,596
Mary Nettleman, Dean of the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, South Dakota - $577,650
Frederick Morin III, Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Vermont - $559,644
Keith Meyer, president Alaska Gasline Development Corp., Alaska - $550,000
Mark Huddleston, president, University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire - $492,800
Clay Christian, Montana's Commissioner of Higher Education, Montana - $309,207
James Page, chancellor, University of Maine System, Maine - $277,500

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Even taking into account the fact that the vast majority of the coaches' salaries are paid for by private funding, what is the actual return on investment for these folks? Sure...it seems strange that a coach would be paid so much, but has anyone stepped back and figured out how much Saban is fricking WORTH to not just UA but the entire state of Alabama in terms of gross revenue? I'd bet anything his value to the state is far greater in raw dollars than anyone on this list not a coach. Show of hands...who gets more for their money, New Hampshire or Alabama?

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Yea, it's not like successful football programs drive the local economies and provide many jobs.

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I never claimed they didn't. I don't really give a shite how much college coaches make.

This apparently doesn't take into account TVA employees which are federal government employees. Bill Johnson will make around 7 million this year, probably over with all his retirement and crazy bonuses. He's got to be the highest public employee in Tennessee, definitely up there nationally too.

Found between 6.4 and 6.8 for 2015.

The amount of money that Saban has generated directly and indirectly for UA is a good argument that he is underpaid.