Successful Student, an education-focused website that provides objective, student-centric college and degree rankings to help students navigate college education, has published its list of The Best Online Degrees in 2021 for Careers. But according to rankings of the highest-paid government employees in Arizona, it might best best to get into coaching.
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Herm Edwards, head football coach at Arizona State University, is Arizona’s high-paid public employee with an annual salary of $3,500,000.
According Successful Student’s Best Online Degrees in 2021 for Careers list, the best online degrees that have the highest salaries and the highest growth rates include broader subject categories of Business, Technology, Science, Healthcare, Education, and Criminal Justice.
10 highest-paid government employees in Arizona
Here are the 10 highest-paid government employees in Arizona, based on salaries paid by government employers during the 2020 fiscal year (mid-2019 to mid-2020):
1. Herman Edwards, $3,500,000
Job: Head football coach at ASU
2. Sean Miller, $2,400,000
Job: Head men’s basketball coach at the University of Arizona
3. Bobby Hurley, $2,200,000
Job: Head men’s basketball coach at ASU
4. Kevin Sumlin, $1,100,000
Job: Head football coach at UArizona
5. Michael Dake, $875,000
Job: Senior vice president of health sciences at UArizona at UArizona
6. Raymond Anderson, $800,000
Job: Vice president of athletics at ASU
7. Michael Crow, $714,150
Job: President of ASU
8. Antonio Pierce, $700,000
Job: Assistant football coach at ASU
9. Robert Robbins, $698,625
Job: President of UArizona
10. David Heeke, $650,000
Job: Vice president and director of athletics at UArizona
Highest-paid woman: Charli Turner, $577,500
Job: Head women’s basketball coach at ASU
