Florida Football Head Coaches' Salaries
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2020 Total Pay figures takes into account reductions due to issues caused by COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 Max Bonus amounts not tallied. 2021 Total Pay does not take into account reductions.
Total Pandemic Reductions shown may actually have been lower due to changes made after publication of 2020 figure. For all notes, see below.
Year | Coach | Total Pay | Scheduled School Pay | Other Pay | Contract Year Pandemic Reduction | Actual School Pay | Total Pandemic Pay Reduction | Max Bonus | Prior Year’s Bonus |
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2023 | Billy Napier | $7,270,000 | $6,920,000 | $350,000 | — | $6,920,000 | — | $1,600,000 | $200,000 |
2022 | Billy Napier | $7,270,000 | $7,270,000 | — | — | $7,270,000 | — | $1,600,000 | — |
2021 | Dan Mullen | $7,570,000 | $7,570,000 | $0 | $0 | $7,570,000 | $0 | $1,225,000 | $0 |
2020 | Dan Mullen | $6,070,000 | $6,070,000 | $0 | $0 | $6,070,000 | $0 | — | $400,000 |
2019 | Dan Mullen | $6,070,000 | $6,070,000 | — | $0 | $0 | $0 | $925,000 | $400,000 |
2018 | Dan Mullen | $6,070,000 | $6,070,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $925,000 | $0 |
2017 | Jim McElwain | $4,457,400 | $4,457,400 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $925,000 | $300,000 |
2016 | Jim McElwain | $4,268,325 | $4,268,325 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $450,000 | $0 |
2015 | Jim McElwain | $3,983,359 | $3,983,359 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $450,000 | $0 |
2014 | Will Muschamp | $2,731,000 | $2,724,500 | $6,500 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $454,000 | $0 |
2013 | Will Muschamp | $2,734,500 | $2,724,500 | $10,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $454,000 | — |
2012 | Will Muschamp | $2,474,500 | $2,474,500 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $450,000 | — |
2011 | Will Muschamp | $3,221,000 | $3,221,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $450,000 | — |
2010 | Urban Meyer | $4,010,000 | $4,010,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $575,000 | — |
2009 | Urban Meyer | $4,000,000 | $250,000 | $3,750,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
2007 | Urban Meyer | $3,383,500 | $238,702 | $3,144,798 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
2006 | Urban Meyer | $1,524,550 | $491,750 | $1,032,800 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $454,000 | $0 |
Income Notes
- 2023
School Pay includes $100,000 one-time signing bonus for use toward moving expenses not covered by university. In addition, school agreed to pay $3 million to Louisiana-Lafayette on Napier's behalf to cover buyout he owed for terminating his contract with that school. University also agreed to cover any potential tax liability Napier may face in connection with this payment. - 2022
School Pay includes $100,000 one-time signing bonus for use toward moving expenses not covered by university. In addition, school agreed to pay $3 million to Louisiana-Lafayette on Napier?s behalf to cover buyout he owed for terminating his contract with that school. University also agreed to cover any potential tax liability Napier may face in connection with this payment. - 2021
2021-22 INCOME: Scheduled School Pay includes $500,000 one-time contract-extension signing bonus paid on July 1, 2021 and $1 million retention payment that is being considered earned as annual compensation on a pro-rata basis from Feb. 1, 2021 through Nov. 30, 2021. Payment would be made on Dec. 1 unless coach is terminated prior to that date. REDUCTION: No cut to Scheduled School Pay but pension contributions discontinued for one year and no bonuses available from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. - 2020
REDUCTION: No cut to Scheduled School Pay but pension contributions discontinued for one year and no bonuses available from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 - 2018
The school also agreed to pay $500,000 to Mississippi State to cover the buyout Mullen owed. - 2017
School pay includes $750,000 payment that McElwain will receive only if he remains head coach as of Jan. 31, 2018. The university is scheduled to pay $3 million, in $500,000 annual installments that began in 2015, to Colorado State as part of McElwain's termination arrangement with that school. In addition, Florida has agreed to play Colorado State in Gainesville, Fla., during the 2018 season and pay Colorado State $2 million on or before Feb. 1, 2019, for that game. - 2016
The university is scheduled to pay $3 million, in $500,000 annual installments that began in 2015, to Colorado State as part of McElwain's termination arrangement with that school. In addition, Florida has agreed to play Colorado State in Gainesville, Fla., during the 2018 season and pay Colorado State $2 million on or before Feb. 1, 2019, for that game. School pay includes $750,000 payment that McElwain will receive only if he remains head coach as of Jan. 31, 2017. - 2015
School pay is based on compensation for an initial contract year defined by the agreement as beginning Dec. 5, 2014 and ending Jan. 31, 2016. School pay also includes a one-time signing bonus of $500,000. Additionally, the university is scheduled to pay $3 million, in $500,000 annual installments that began in 2015, to Colorado State as part of McElwain's termination arrangement with that school. In addition, Florida has agreed to play Colorado State in Gainesville, Fla., during the 2018 season and pay Colorado State $2 million on or before Feb. 1, 2019 for that game.
The information below applies to the data obtained for the 2023-2024 contract season: To see the methodology behind this data, click here.
Where the table does not display a number, it means the amount could not be obtained. An asterisk means additional information about the coach's compensation is available by clicking on the number shown.
“School Buyout” figures are the amount a school would owe coach if it fired coach without cause on April 1, 2024. Many of these amounts are expressly subject to coach's duty to make good-faith efforts to find another job, with income from that employment offsetting the amount owed. If mitigation and offset are not addressed in a contract, coach still may have obligation to make efforts in that regard. The amount listed may be owed to coach over an extended period of time, rather than as a lump sum at termination.
Coaches' records are going into 2023-24 season, compiled from information displayed in NCAA statistics database at NCAA Statistics – so they may be impacted by games vacated or forfeited by the NCAA or the schools.
"Record at school" data for Murray State’s Steve Prohm is based on his current tenure at the school.
CREDITS
By Steve Berkowitz, Sean Dougherty, Leo Wotzak and Brad Jennings of USA TODAY; Robert Lattinville of WME, who represents college coaches and athletics directors as well as NCAA member schools.