Narduzzi’s pay hits $1.83 million
Ex-basketball coach Dixon top earner at Pitt from July 2015-June 2016
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pitt football coach Pat Narduzzi made $1.83 million in total compensation in 2016, according to federal tax documents the university released Friday.
Narduzzi’s inclusion on Pitt’s IRS Form 990 was his first since being hired by the school in December 2014. The university’s most recent form covers a time period from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016.
Of Narduzzi’s total salary, $1.31 million came from base compensation, with an additional $450,000 coming from bonus and incentive compensation. His salary is slightly higher than that of former coach Paul Chryst in his final year at the school, a span in which he earned $1.7 million from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015.
Narduzzi signed a twoyear contract extension in 2015, which pushes his deal through the 2021 season and likely increases his salary.
Former men’s basketball coach Jamie Dixon, who left to become the head coach at TCU in March 2016, was the school’s highest-paid employee for the fifth consecutive year, earning $2.48 million. Only $1.58 million of that total was base compensation, as the rest came from incentive compensation and deferred compensation, among other things. Women’s basketball coach Suzie McConnell-Serio made $647,834 in total compensation.
Kevin Stallings, the Panthers’ current men’s basketball coach, was not included on the list of the university’s highest earners, having been hired in March 2016, three months before the end of the fiscal year.
The prevalence of athletic department figures ranking among a Division I university’s highest-paid employees is far from uncommon.
In fact, it largely has become the norm with many states having a coach as its highest-earning public employee. Chancellor Patrick Gallagher and former chancellor Mark Nordenberg, for reference, earned $741,485 and $932,840, respectively. Though Pitt is a state-related university and is not subject to open-records laws, its status as a nonprofit requires it to file a 990 form annually.
Scott Barnes, Pitt’s former athletic director who left the university in February for the same position at Oregon State, was not listed among the school’s officers, directors, trustees, key employees and highest compensated employees.
Former athletic director Steve Pederson, fired by Gallagher in December 2014, made $958,442 in total compensation on the 990 form filed last year.