Texas Football Head Coaches' Salaries
Texas
Big 12 Conference
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 | Steve Sarkisian | $5,600,000 | $5,600,000 | $0 | $0 | $5,600,000 | $0 | $825,000 | $25,000 |
2022 | Steve Sarkisian | $5,400,000 | $5,400,000 | $0 | $0 | $5,400,000 | $0 | $825,000 | $0 |
2021 | Steve Sarkisian | $5,450,000 | $5,450,000 | — | $0 | $5,450,000 | $0 | $825,000 | — |
2020 | Tom Herman | $5,827,917 | $6,000,000 | $0 | $172,083 | $5,827,917 | $516,250 | — | $75,000 |
2019 | Tom Herman | $6,750,000 | $6,750,000 | — | $0 | $0 | $0 | $725,000 | $220,000 |
2018 | Tom Herman | $5,500,000 | $5,500,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $725,000 | $75,000 |
2017 | Tom Herman | $5,486,316 | $5,486,316 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $725,000 | $0 |
2016 | Charlie Strong | $5,200,130 | $5,200,000 | $130 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,006,000 | $0 |
2015 | Charlie Strong | $5,100,270 | $5,100,000 | $270 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,003,000 | $25,000 |
2014 | Charlie Strong | $5,000,270 | $5,000,000 | $270 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,000,000 | — |
2013 | Mack Brown | $5,453,750 | $5,392,500 | $61,250 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $850,000 | — |
2012 | Mack Brown | $5,353,750 | $5,292,500 | $61,250 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $850,000 | — |
2011 | Mack Brown | $5,193,500 | $5,192,500 | $1,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $850,000 | — |
2010 | Mack Brown | $5,161,500 | $5,100,000 | $61,500 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $850,000 | $0 |
2009 | Mack Brown | $3,060,500 | $1,540,000 | $1,520,500 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $850,000 | $0 |
2007 | Mack Brown | $2,751,000 | $1,291,000 | $1,460,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $325,000 | $0 |
2006 | Mack Brown | $2,664,000 | $1,084,000 | $1,580,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $325,000 | $0 |
Income Notes
- 2021
2021-22 INCOME: Scheduled School Pay includes $250,000 one-time payment to cover moving, relocation and temporary housing expenses. Texas also paid $500,528 on Sarkisian's behalf to Alabama to cover payment of loan that Sarkisian had received from that school, plus an additional $254,975 in connection with Sarkisian's tax liability for that payment - 2020
REDUCTION: Base salary of $3.5 million reduced by marginal rates resulting in total deduction of $516,250 from Sept. 1, 2020 through Aug. 31, 2021. Bonuses also being suspended during that period. Contract year ends Dec. 31. School has committed to repay deduction prior to contract's expiration on Dec. 31, 2023. - 2019
School pay includes $1,000,000 payment Herman will receive only if he remains head coach on Dec. 25, 2019. He will not be able to receive another such payment until 2022. - 2017
School pay includes one-time relocation payment of $236,316. Also, the university paid $2.5 million to Houston to assume Herman's contract. The amount is equal to the one Herman would have owed Houston within 60 days of the effective date of his termination if he had terminated the agreement without cause on or before Feb. 28, 2017. - 2014
In addition to School Pay, the university paid $4,375,000 to Louisville to assume Strong's contract. The amount, to have been paid within one business day of the assumption agreement, is equal to the amount Strong would have owed Louisville within 21 days of his final day of employment if he had terminated the contract without between July 1, 2013, and June 30, 2014, and accepted a paid coaching position with another employer.
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.