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Coaches top list of highest paid at UW, administrators and economics professors follow

Football coach Paul Chryst topped the Business Journal’s list of 22 UW employees with base salaries of more than $350,000, at $2.57 million. Ray Cross, president of the UW System, led the six university administrators included on the list. With a salary of $512,064, he is the only one of the top-earning UW administrators not working at the flagship campus, UW-Madison.