The incoming campus president of the University of Alabama will start his term with a salary that ranks him among the state’s highest-paid university staff.
Through September 30, 2026, Peter Mohler will be paid $800,000, plus an annual performance incentive of $150,000 in 2026 and $75,000 in 2025. According to a deal that was authorized today, Mohler will also receive $30,000 for relocation costs.
According to documents examined by AL.com, he received $783,324 in 2023 as interim president of Ohio State University, which is a minor increase of almost 2%.
As of July 2024, former President Stuart Bell’s base pay was $775,842. According to recent AL.com reports, Ray Watts, the president of UAB, makes over $1 million annually.
Even the athletic coaches at the University of Alabama have salaries that have been approved by the board. The baseball coach’s salary was $1.275 million, while the men’s and women’s swimming coach’s was $180,000.
Kalen DeBoer, the football coach, has a deal worth roughly $10 million.
Mohler enrolls at Alabama at a pivotal juncture in its history. Last year, the management of UA celebrated a record enrollment of almost 40,000 students.
In the meantime, the student organization of the NAACP and two professors are suing the University of Alabama System board of trustees for their interpretation of the state’s anti-DEI law.
One of UA’s overseas graduate students was caught up in the immigration crackdown that President Donald Trump’s administration has incited. He deported himself.
Additionally, a Trump executive order led to the cancellation of grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, including millions of dollars in support for UA researchers studying kidney disease, COVID-19, and computer science.
In 2023, Mohler was interim president and the vice president for research at Ohio State.
His tenure will start on July 21.
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The starting compensation for Mohler at Ohio State University was $783,324, as this story has been corrected to reflect.
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