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BU president’s 2013 salary topped $1 million

Robert. A. Brown was paid $1.18 million in salary and benefits.

Boston University president Robert A. Brown was the only private college president in Massachusetts to earn more than $1 million in 2013. Suzanne Kreiter / The Boston Globe

Boston University president Robert A. Brown was paid $1.18 million in salary and benefits in 2013, making him the highest-paid private college president in Massachusetts that year, reports The Boston Globe.

Brown was the only college president in the state who earned more than $1 million in 2013, reports the Globe, referring to an annual survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education, which uses data from federal tax filings by 497 colleges.

Joseph E. Aoun, the president of Northeastern, was the second-highest-paid private college president in Massachusetts in 2013, earning about $999,000 in salary and benefits.

Read the full story in the Globe.

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