Here's How Much Each Ivy League University President Makes In A Year

Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger is the highest paid president in the Ivy League, according to data compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Bollinger made $3,389,917 in 2012, the most recent year that financial documents are available for nonprofit institutions. The highest paid college president in the country - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute president Shirley Ann Jackson - made more than $7 million that year, according to The Chronicle.

Student newspaper The Columbia Daily Spectator has a great breakdown of how Bollinger made his more than $3,000,000 in 2012, including his $1,012,707 base salary. This year, The Chronicle changed its methodology to include only direct payments to the college presidents - such as their base salary, bonus, nontaxable benefits, and other reportable compensation.

Because of the nature of nonprofit financial reports, these numbers are from a few years ago and show a very different portrait of Ivy League leadership than is currently in place. Half of the names listed below are no longer president of their respective colleges - we've marked each former president with an *.

Here are the highest paid presidents in the Ivy League, via The Chronicle:

1. Lee C. Bollinger (Columbia University) - $3,389,917
2. Amy Gutmann (University of Pennsylvania) - $2,473,952
3. Richard C. Levin* (Yale University) - $1,375,365
4. Shirley M. Tilghman* (Princeton University) - $948,412
5. Drew Gilpin Faust (Harvard University) - $908,642
6. David J. Skorton (Cornell University) - $817,441
7. Jim Yong Kim* (Dartmouth College) - $755,999
8. Ruth J. Simmons* (Brown University) - $676,324