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Many of Georgia’s top athletic administrators got sizable pay raises in the last year.
It followed UGA athletic director Josh Brooks getting a boost in compensation and the Georgia football program winning a second straight national title.
Brooks’ base salary went from $780,000 to $925,000 and his total pay from $855,000 to $1.025 million.
Senior deputy athletic director Darrice Griffin’s pay rose from $245,000 to $322,460. Deputy athletic director of legal & regulatory affairs Will Lawler’s salary went up from $240,000 to $315,920 while executive athletic director for sports medicine Ron Courson’s pay jumped from $265,000 to $352,000.
The number of Georgia coaches and administrators making $300,000 or more went from 24 last year to 27 this year, according to salaries obtained by the Athens Banner-Herald in an open records request for all Athletic Association non-clerical employees as of July 1, 2023.
The support staff pay for the football program is $5.26 million, up from $4.85 million last year.
Jonas Jennings, the director of player development, makes $457,000. Scott Cochran, who serves in an off-field special teams coordinator role, is paid $452,000.
A Georgia athletics spokesman said the executive athletic staff salary increases came from “either retention, equity or contract renewal.”
Nine years ago, Georgia’s top deputy athletic administrators, Frank Crumley and Carla Williams, were each paid $230,000, just below what Brooks’ top deputies were making before their raises.
Georgia football coach Kirby Smart’s total pay now is at $10,502,000, up from $10,377,000. That increase was included in the 10-year contract that began last year.
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Smart is the highest paid public employee in the state, but received a University System of Georgia $2,000 cost of living adjustment like other Athletic Association employees including football assistant coaches, all of whom make more than $500,000 each.
Men’s basketball coach Mike White is the second highest paid in UGA athletics at $3.4 million. Three assistant football coaches also make seven figures: defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann at $1.9 million and offensive coordinator Mike Bobo and defensive line coach Tray Scott at just over $1 million.
Women’s basketball coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson is the highest paid female at $952,000.
Across UGA athletics, 44 people make at least $200,000 a year and 99 make at least $100,000 a year, up from 94 a year earlier.
That includes deputy athletic director for finance Stephanie Ransom whose salary rose from $229,753 to $252,431. Georgia Bulldog Club executive director Ford Williams’ pay went from $205,000 to $225,295.
Jeff Wallace, who retired as women’s tennis coach after this past season, was still being paid a portion of his $332,000 annual salary as the program transitioned to its new coach, but Wallace’s retirement is effective at the end of this month, per UGA.
Gymnastics’ top assistant coach, Ryan Roberts, is being paid $161,000, up from $150,000. That’s $46,000 less than the $207,000 of head coach Courtney Kupets-Carter.
The Athletic Association serves about 550 Georgia athletes.
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