Dataset of the Day: Male College Head Coaching Salaries

With the college football season winding down and the National Championship coming up on January 8, 2009 between the Florida Gators and the Oklahoma Sooners, it would be interesting to know what college programs across the country are paying their head coaches. The following map shows a data collection, by all co-educational post-secondary institutions that receive Title IV funding. That basically means all colleges that participate in financial student aid programs that also offer athletic programs. The points represent colleges and what male head coaches are paid per university.

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After viewing this above map, I was interested in finding out what the BCS top 25 college football team rankings and their head coaches were getting paid – comparatively to the other head coaches throughout the US. The map below shows the top 25 college football teams with orange proportion symbols and reveal, for the most part, that most of the colleges with highly paid coaches are universities that are succeeding at the highest level. The University of Texas, University of Florida, and University of Alabama show particularly high salaries.

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