Narduzzi reported as highest-paid non-officer for fourth-straight year

Football coach Pat Narduzzi is the highest-paid non-officer employee at Pitt.

Pat Narduzzi, Pitt’s head football coach, leads Pitt’s newly released list of the 25 highest-paid non-officer positions for fiscal year 2020. The list — which is required for all state-related universities by Pennsylvania’s Right-To-Know Law — revealed Narduzzi tops the list at nearly $4.8 million.

Narduzzi earned $4,730,073 in the 2020 fiscal year, an increase from his $3,985,144.93 earning in fiscal year 2019 and $3,142,424 in fiscal year 2018.

Other top University officials — including Chancellor Patrick Gallagher — did not receive pay increases in 2021 as part of a University-wide salary freeze due to the COVID-19 pandemic, despite seeing pay increases the previous two fiscal years.

Gallagher and top officials pledged last spring that they would donate part of their salaries to Pitt’s general scholarship fund, which provides tuition assistance to students. The chancellor donated 20% of his 2020-21 salary, and the eight senior vice chancellors under him donated 10% of their respective salaries.

The 24 other highest-paid non-officer employees at Pitt are:

Jeff Capel, Pitt men’s basketball coach, $3,460,250
David Thaw, associate research professor of law and an assistant research professor of computing & information, $1,024,012
Shawn Watson, former assistant football coach, $1,002,174
Heather Lyke, director of athletics, $756,000
Dietrich Stephan, chair of the Department of Human Genetics, $700,000
Michael Becich, associate vice chancellor for health sciences informatics, $666,875
Lance White, Pitt women’s basketball coach, $612,000
Bernard Costello, dean of School of Dental Medicine and professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery, $607,500
Kristin Davitt, senior vice chancellor for philanthropic and alumni engagement, $607,500
A. Everette James III, associate vice chancellor for health policy and planning, $603,365
Randy Bates, football defensive coordinator, $547,917
Steven Reis, associate vice chancellor for health sciences clinical research, $537,500
Peter Strick, scientific director of Pitt’s Brain Institute, $520,000
Jonathan Silverstein, chief research informatics officer for health sciences, $511,471
Angela Gronenborn, UPMC Rosalind Franklin chair and professor in the department of structural biology, $507,500
Mark Shlomchik, chair of the department of immunology, $497,500
Suzanne McConnell-Serio, former women’s basketball coach, $490,460
David Denis, Katz Graduate School of Business finance chair, $488,750
Mark Whipple, football offensive coordinator, $476,450
Peter Wipf, professor in the chemistry department, $470,366
Bruce Freeman, chair of the Pharmacology and Chemical Biology department, $470,000
Mark Nordenberg, former chancellor, $467,001
Lise Vesterlund, economics professor, $466,725
Arjang Assad, dean of the College of Business Administration and Katz Graduate School of Business, $462,015