IN THE MONEY

What SEC football coaches are scheduled to make in 2018:

› Alabama’s Nick Saban $7.53 million*

› Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher $7.5 million

› Georgia’s Kirby Smart $7.0 million**

› Auburn’s Gus Malzahn $6.7 million

› Florida’s Dan Mullen $6.1 million

› South Carolina’s Will Muschamp $4.2 million

› Kentucky’s Mark Stoops $4.0 million

› Tennessee’s Jeremy Pruitt $3.8 million

› LSU’s Ed Orgeron $3.5 million

› Arkansas’ Chad Morris $3.5 million

› Mississippi’s Matt Luke $3.0 million

› Vanderbilt’s Derek Mason $2.72 million***

› Mississippi State’s Joe Moorhead $2.6 million

› Missouri’s Barry Odom $2.4 million

* Saban’s salary last season was $11.13 million, which included a $4 million signing bonus for the eight-year contract he agreed to in April 2017.

** Georgia did not announce Thursday whether Smart’s salary will be $7 million annually or incrementally staggered over the seven-year period.

*** Mason may be above $3 million now. Vanderbilt is the league’s lone private institution and doesn’t have to reveal salary information. The $2.72 million figure was obtained by USA Today from Mason’s federal tax returns from 2015.