Mississippi State Football Head Coaches' Salaries
Mississippi State
Southeastern Conference
2020 Total Pay figures takes into account reductions due to issues caused by COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 Max Bonus amounts not tallied. 2021 Total Pay does not take into account reductions.
Total Pandemic Reductions shown may actually have been lower due to changes made after publication of 2020 figure. For all notes, see below.
Year | Coach | Total Pay | Scheduled School Pay | Other Pay | Contract Year Pandemic Reduction | Actual School Pay | Total Pandemic Pay Reduction | Max Bonus | Prior Year’s Bonus |
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2023 | Zach Arnett | $3,000,000 | $3,000,000 | — | — | $3,000,000 | — | $2,200,000 | — |
2022 | Mike Leach | $5,500,000 | $5,500,000 | — | $0 | $5,500,000 | $0 | $1,400,000 | $100,000 |
2021 | Mike Leach | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | — | $0 | $5,000,000 | $0 | $1,400,000 | $0 |
2020 | Mike Leach | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | $0 | $0 | $5,000,000 | $0 | — | — |
2019 | Joe Moorhead | $3,050,000 | $3,050,000 | — | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,350,000 | $75,000 |
2018 | Joe Moorhead | $2,600,000 | $2,600,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,350,000 | $0 |
2017 | Dan Mullen | $4,500,000 | $4,500,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,150,000 | $150,000 |
2016 | Dan Mullen | $4,200,000 | $4,200,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $900,000 | $200,000 |
2015 | Dan Mullen | $4,000,000 | $4,000,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $900,000 | $390,000 |
2014 | Dan Mullen | $3,000,000 | $3,000,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $710,000 | — |
2013 | Dan Mullen | $2,700,000 | $2,700,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $650,000 | — |
2012 | Dan Mullen | $2,600,000 | $2,600,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $650,000 | — |
2011 | Dan Mullen | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $650,000 | — |
2010 | Dan Mullen | $1,208,295 | $1,200,000 | $8,295 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
2009 | Dan Mullen | $1,200,000 | $250,000 | $950,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $100,000 | $0 |
2007 | Sylvester Croom | $975,000 | $205,000 | $770,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
2006 | Sylvester Croom | $940,000 | $190,000 | $750,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $15,833 | $0 |
Income Notes
- 2023
School Pay includes base salary from state contract, plus compensation from contract with the Bulldog Club, Inc., a private non-profit organization that declined to release the agreement. Agreement also covers buyout that would be paid if coach is fired. University provided summary of current contract-year pay under that agreement. - 2022
School Pay includes base salary from state contract, plus compensation from contract with the Bulldog Club, Inc., a private non-profit organization that declined to release the agreement. Agreement also covers buyout that would be paid if coach is fired. University provided summary of current contract-year pay and bonus maximum under that agreement. - 2021
2021-22 INCOME: Actual School Pay includes base salary from state contract, plus compensation from contract with the Bulldog Club, Inc., a private non-profit organization that declined to release the agreement. Agreement also covers buyout that would be paid if coach is fired. University provided summary of current contract-year pay and bonus maximum under that agreement. - 2020
2020-21 INCOME: Actual School Pay includes base salary from state contract, plus compensation from contract with the Bulldog Club, Inc., a private non-profit organization that declined to release the agreement. Agreement also covers buyout that would be paid if coach is fired. University provided summary of current contract-year pay and bonus maximum under that agreement. Bulldog Club also paid $2,250,000 to Washington State to cover buyout that Leach owed. - 2019
School pay includes base salary from state contract, plus compensation from contract with the Bulldog Club, Inc., a private non-profit organization that declined to release the agreement. University provided summary of current contract-year pay and bonus maximum under that agreement, as well as bonuses paid for last season. - 2018
School pay includes base salary from state contract, plus compensation from contract with the Bulldog Club, Inc., a private non-profit organization that declined to release the agreement. University provided summary of current contract-year pay and bonus maximum under that agreement. - 2017
School pay includes base salary from Mullen's publicly available state contract, plus compensation from contract with the Bulldog Club, Inc., a private non-profit organization that declined to release the agreement. University provided summary of current contract-year pay, bonus maximum and bonuses paid under that agreement. - 2016
School pay includes base salary from Mullen's publicly available state contract, plus compensation from contract with the Bulldog Club, Inc., a private non-profit organization that declined to release the agreement. University provided summary of current contract-year pay, bonus maximum and bonuses paid under that agreement.
The information below applies to the data obtained for the 2023-2024 contract season: To see the methodology behind this data, click here.
Where the table does not display a number, it means the amount could not be obtained. An asterisk means additional information about the coach's compensation is available by clicking on the number shown.
“School Buyout” figures are the amount a school would owe coach if it fired coach without cause on April 1, 2024. Many of these amounts are expressly subject to coach's duty to make good-faith efforts to find another job, with income from that employment offsetting the amount owed. If mitigation and offset are not addressed in a contract, coach still may have obligation to make efforts in that regard. The amount listed may be owed to coach over an extended period of time, rather than as a lump sum at termination.
Coaches' records are going into 2023-24 season, compiled from information displayed in NCAA statistics database at NCAA Statistics – so they may be impacted by games vacated or forfeited by the NCAA or the schools.
"Record at school" data for Murray State’s Steve Prohm is based on his current tenure at the school.
CREDITS
By Steve Berkowitz, Sean Dougherty, Leo Wotzak and Brad Jennings of USA TODAY; Robert Lattinville of WME, who represents college coaches and athletics directors as well as NCAA member schools.