Ronald A. Zook

$1,052,500.10

Head coach, football

Zook has been head coach of the Illinois football program since 2005. During the 2007 season, he led the Illini to the Rose Bowl and was selected as Big Ten Coach of the Year.

Ronald E. Guenther

$600,000

Director, Intercollegiate Athletics

Guenther is an Illinois graduate and played football for the Illini as a student. During his time as athletic director, Memorial Stadium has undergone renovation.

B. Joseph White

$450,000

former UI president*

White was the president of the UI system from 2005-09. Before coming to Illinois, White was dean of the College of Business at the University of Michigan. He remains on the Illinois faculty.

Bruce B. Weber

$405,000

Head coach, men’s basketball

Weber has been the head men’s basketball coach since 2003. He led the Illini to the championship game of the Final Four during the 2004-05 season. He also has led the team to two Big Ten Championships.

Richard H. Herman

$395,500

Former Urbana chancellor*

Herman served as chancellor of the Urbana campus from 2005-09 after serving as provost. He also has a doctorate in mathematics and was appointed to President George W. Bush’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He remains on the Illinois faculty.

Bradford S. Schwartz

$355,525.78

Regional dean, College of Medicine

Schwartz is also a professor of biochemistry. Currently, he is working on research for the regulation of the initiating steps of protease cascades, which mediate a number of important biological processes.

Avijit Ghosh

$345,000

Vice president for technology and economic development for UI system

Though now a member of University administration, Ghosh was dean of the College of Business from 2001–07. He also serves on the board of directors for the Illinois Chamber of Commerce.

Lawrence M. DeBrock

$340,000

Dean, College of Business

DeBrock was named dean in 2009 but has been at UI since 1979. He also is a professor of business administration and economics.He was given the MBA Faculty Award in 2000.

Ravishankar K. Iyer

$335,833.33

Interim vice chancellor for research

Iyer is the senior officer on the Urbana campus with responsibility for advancing research. He oversees the Institute for Genomic Biology, Center for Advanced Study and several other units.

Carl R. Woese

$311,250

Stanley O. Ikenberry endowed chair

Woese is famous for defining Archaea ­— a new kingdom of life — in 1977. He has worked at UI since 1964. He was a MacArthur fellow in 1987 and won the National Medal of Science in 2000.

Jolette D. Law

$310,000

Head coach, women’s basketball

Law is in her third year as the coach of the women’s team. She played at Iowa and graduated in 1990. Law also played for the Harlem Globetrotters from 1990–94.

Ilesanmi Adesida

$309,466

Dean, College of Engineering

Adesida joined the UI in 1988 after serving as the head of electrical engineering at Tafawa Balewa University in Nigeria. He also served as the director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory.

Thomas H. Dunning

$306,215

Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Dunning is also the director for the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies. He leads a staff of about 300 technologists and scientists at the University.

Bruce Smith

$300,000

Dean, College of Law

Smith is the Guy Raymond Jones Faculty Scholar. Smith practiced law for five years, and in 2008, he won the Campus Award for Graduate and Professional Teaching.

*Note: White resigned in September and Herman resigned in October. Since then, they have been replaced by Interim President Stanley Ikenberry and Interim Chancellor/Provost Robert Easter.

Source: illinois.edu, fightingillini.com