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Who spends the most on coaches compensation

Every figure is read from the school's own NCAA financial report — the annual filing each Division I athletics department submits to the NCAA. Ranked by reported dollars, not by results.
118Schools ranked
FY2021Fiscal year
$987.17MCombined coaches compensation
831Reports parsed

Salaries, benefits, and bonuses paid to coaches by the institution and by affiliated entities.

Rank / schoolReported coaches compensationChange
01

Texas

$43.11M · $43,105,708

no prior year
02

Ohio State

$36.37M · $36,371,292

no prior year
03

Michigan

$34.15M · $34,149,105

no prior year
04

Arizona

$32.68M · $32,682,555

no prior year
05

Oklahoma

$32.63M · $32,631,978

+5% YoY
06

Texas A&M

$31.47M · $31,470,601

no prior year
07

Kentucky

$29.86M · $29,857,355

no prior year
08

Georgia

$29.15M · $29,154,167

+2% YoY
09

UCLA

$26.66M · $26,662,653

no prior year
10

Virginia

$26.36M · $26,356,586

no prior year
11

Clemson

$25.17M · $25,174,327

no prior year
12

Indiana

$22.91M · $22,912,068

no prior year
13

Nebraska

$22.39M · $22,385,907

no prior year
14

North Carolina

$21.48M · $21,478,863

no prior year
15

South Carolina

$21.30M · $21,295,848

no prior year
16

Maryland

$20.96M · $20,963,623

no prior year
17

Mississippi State

$20.28M · $20,281,612

no prior year
18

Missouri

$20.20M · $20,200,329

−8% YoY
19

UConn

$19.34M · $19,338,055

no prior year
20

NC State

$18.68M · $18,680,547

no prior year
21

Oklahoma State

$18.54M · $18,540,449

no prior year
22

Purdue

$18.43M · $18,432,096

no prior year
23

Georgia Tech

$15.66M · $15,663,757

no prior year
24

Oregon State

$15.60M · $15,599,718

−3% YoY
25

Fresno State

$11.07M · $11,067,928

no prior year
26

San José State

$10.97M · $10,967,390

no prior year
27

UNLV

$9.60M · $9,597,324

no prior year
28

Boise State

$9.33M · $9,333,469

−9% YoY
29

East Carolina

$8.88M · $8,877,761

no prior year
30

Utah State

$8.76M · $8,761,227

no prior year
31

University of Hawaii, Manoa

$8.13M · $8,133,119

no prior year
32

Buffalo

$8.08M · $8,082,171

+9% YoY
33

Stony Brook

$7.51M · $7,513,397

no prior year
34

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

$7.19M · $7,188,328

no prior year
35

Florida Atlantic

$7.19M · $7,187,217

flat
36

Florida International

$6.99M · $6,989,586

no prior year
37

Nevada

$6.96M · $6,963,691

no prior year
38

University of California, Davis

$6.94M · $6,942,301

no prior year
39

Central Michigan

$6.77M · $6,774,466

−3% YoY
40

UAlbany

$6.75M · $6,746,961

no prior year
41

Charlotte

$6.74M · $6,740,839

no prior year
42

Georgia State

$6.74M · $6,736,077

+6% YoY
43

VCU

$6.45M · $6,451,671

no prior year
44

Middle Tennessee

$6.30M · $6,296,779

no prior year
45

Southern Miss

$6.04M · $6,044,267

+18% YoY
46

Western Michigan

$5.67M · $5,665,711

−20% YoY
47

Ball State

$5.66M · $5,655,368

no prior year
48

Illinois State University

$5.63M · $5,626,710

no prior year
49

Texas State

$5.61M · $5,605,761

+2% YoY
50

Towson

$5.60M · $5,600,893

no prior year
51

Eastern Michigan

$5.58M · $5,582,955

no prior year
52

New Mexico State

$5.58M · $5,581,971

+1% YoY
53

George Mason University

$5.36M · $5,363,272

no prior year
54

UC Santa Barbara

$5.13M · $5,130,013

no prior year
55

Rhode Island

$5.11M · $5,108,028

no prior year
56

North Dakota State

$4.79M · $4,792,383

no prior year
57

California State University, Northridge

$4.66M · $4,663,424

no prior year
58

University of Northern Iowa

$4.58M · $4,579,439

no prior year
59

South Dakota State

$4.52M · $4,523,519

no prior year
60

California State University, Fullerton

$4.30M · $4,299,093

no prior year
61

Kennesaw State

$4.29M · $4,291,757

+2% YoY
62

University of Massachusetts Lowell

$4.18M · $4,180,105

no prior year
63

Stephen F. Austin State University

$4.17M · $4,172,165

no prior year
64

Sam Houston

$4.16M · $4,164,693

no prior year
65

Montana State

$4.06M · $4,060,675

no prior year
66

East Tennessee State

$3.92M · $3,923,364

no prior year
67

Austin Peay State University

$3.91M · $3,912,688

no prior year
68

South Dakota

$3.87M · $3,870,893

no prior year
69

Maine

$3.64M · $3,639,687

no prior year
70

Weber State University

$3.62M · $3,624,620

no prior year
71

Montana

$3.62M · $3,617,576

no prior year
72

Eastern Kentucky

$3.55M · $3,547,512

no prior year
73

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

$3.55M · $3,545,908

no prior year
74

Indiana State

$3.52M · $3,520,537

no prior year
75

North Carolina A&T State University

$3.34M · $3,343,759

−6% YoY
76

University of North Carolina Wilmington

$3.33M · $3,334,916

no prior year
77

Florida Gulf Coast University

$3.29M · $3,289,385

−4% YoY
78

Idaho

$3.26M · $3,259,745

no prior year
79

Western Carolina

$3.25M · $3,252,425

no prior year
80

California State University, Bakersfield

$3.24M · $3,239,249

no prior year
81

Eastern Washington

$3.14M · $3,138,606

no prior year
82

University of Nebraska Omaha

$3.05M · $3,053,748

no prior year
83

North Carolina Central

$3.03M · $3,030,371

no prior year
84

NJIT

$3.01M · $3,009,522

no prior year
85

Portland State University

$2.80M · $2,797,549

no prior year
86

Oakland

$2.79M · $2,791,474

no prior year
87

The University of North Carolina at

$2.52M · $2,518,880

no prior year
88

University of West Florida

$2.35M · $2,351,021

no prior year
89

University of Missouri-Kansas City

$2.30M · $2,297,419

no prior year
90

North Alabama

$2.29M · $2,289,462

no prior year
91

Angelo State

$2.26M · $2,261,260

no prior year
92

Idaho State

$2.23M · $2,231,010

−12% YoY
93

University of Central Missouri

$2.19M · $2,185,156

no prior year
94

Morehead State

$2.04M · $2,044,965

no prior year
95

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

$1.86M · $1,863,596

no prior year
96

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

$1.85M · $1,853,616

no prior year
97

Nebraska-Kearney

$1.85M · $1,850,129

no prior year
98

South Carolina State University

$1.78M · $1,783,437

no prior year
99

Midwestern State University

$1.78M · $1,780,177

no prior year
100

Michigan Tech

$1.78M · $1,779,616

no prior year
101

UNC Asheville

$1.61M · $1,610,736

no prior year
102

Central Washington

$1.54M · $1,544,613

no prior year
103

Emporia State University

$1.52M · $1,516,986

no prior year
104

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

$1.36M · $1,363,213

no prior year
105

West Liberty University

$1.35M · $1,353,446

no prior year
106

Eastern New Mexico University

$1.33M · $1,334,441

no prior year
107

University of North Georgia

$1.33M · $1,325,929

no prior year
108

New Mexico

$1.32M · $1,322,570

no prior year
109

Black Hills State University

$1.23M · $1,231,151

no prior year
110

Southeastern Oklahoma State

$1.21M · $1,210,565

no prior year
111

University of Missouri–St. Louis

$1.20M · $1,201,138

no prior year
112

Fort Lewis College

$1.16M · $1,160,931

no prior year
113

Albany State University (Georgia)

$1.16M · $1,156,874

no prior year
114

Montana State University Billings

$1.14M · $1,143,074

no prior year
115

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

$1.06M · $1,061,199

no prior year
116

University of Minnesota, Crookston

$949K · $948,910

no prior year
117

Georgia College

$742K · $741,835

no prior year
118

Cameron University

$675K · $674,964

no prior year
How to read these rankings

These figures come from filed NCAA financial reports collected in our document corpus and parsed from the report text. 831 reports parsed cleanly; 56 could not be read and are absent from these rankings, so a school missing from a year has not necessarily reported nothing.

Football and basketball views come from the report's per-sport allocation tables. They cover recruiting and team travel, not aviation alone: commercial airfare, buses, hotels, meals, and other eligible costs share the same lines. A school can also leave some expenses unallocated.

Private universities have no public-disclosure obligation and generally do not appear. Fiscal years are not uniform — most close June 30, but some schools close on a different date, so a single “FY” column compares slightly different periods. Schools also categorize inconsistently between reports, so treat cross-school gaps of a few percent as noise rather than signal.