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University of Miami football coach Mario Cristobal was credited with just over $8.3 million in total compensation for the 2023 calendar year, the school’s new federal tax returns show.
The document, provided by the university late Friday afternoon April 25 in response to a request from USA TODAY Sports, showed that slightly more than $8 million of Cristobal’s total was categorized as base compensation and $150,000 as bonus and incentive compensation.
This provides the first plain look at Cristobal’s pay as Miami’s coach. The school’s return last year, which covered 2022 calendar-year pay, included amounts connected to the $9 million buyout that Cristobal owed to Oregon for ending his contract with that school. Miami treated that amount as taxable income for Cristobal, but it also paid those taxes. That resulted in Miami reporting Cristobal with $22.7 million in total compensation.
Of that amount, a little less than $7.8 million represented as Cristobal’s basic pay for 2022, Miami athletics director Dan Radakovich confirmed in an interview with USA TODAY Sports last April.
Cristobal’s $8 million in base compensation for the 2023 calendar year likely would have made him the 14th-highest paid football coach in the nation, according to USA TODAY’s annual pay survey for the 2023 season.
For the 2025 season, there are likely 10 football coaches currently set to make at least $10 million in basic annual pay. However, comparing the pay of private-school coaches to that of public-school coaches is difficult because the contracs of private-school employees are not subject to public-records disclosure requirements.
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