Top UC coaches earn twice as much money as top UC brain surgeons
Coaching college football or basketball at a major University of California campus isn’t brain surgery; it’s much more lucrative. The 15 highest-paid University of California athletic coaches made about $18 million last year, up roughly 50 percent from the prior year. About $14 million of that went to six football and basketball coaches, none of whom coached their teams to a top 10 NCAA ranking in 2013. By contrast, the 15 highest-paid brain surgeons at the University of California at San Francisco earned $9 million last year. U.S. News and World Report this week ranked UCSF’s neurosurgery department as the best in California and the fifth-best in the nation, noting that other neurosurgeons frequently named it “among the best for very challenging patients.”
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by Phillip Reese, The Sacramento Bee.