25 Employees of USC Take Home $230 Million in Compensation
25 of the most highly compensated employees in 2025 at the University of Southern California (USC) – a privately funded research university (not publicly funded like many state universities ) with about 47,000 students (21,000 undergrads and 26,000 graduate and professional students) where annual tuition, room and board is about $100,000 or about $400,000 for a 4-year degree – received $230 million from 2017-2025 (note: this list does not include any high compensated employees in any of the years 2017-2024 but not in 2025):
Lincoln Riley: Total Compensation 2023-2025: $43 million
- 2025: $11,802,958
- 2024: $11,537,560
- 2023: $19,659,862
Eric Musselman: Total Compensation 2025; $6 million
- 2025: $6,104,853
Carol L Folt: Total Compensation 2020-2025: $21 million
- 2025: $4,301,294
- 2024: $4,981,275
- 2023: $4,628,109
- 2022: $3,895,165
- 2021: $2,376,361
- 2020: $1,314,129
Eric Brink: Total Compensation 2024-2025: $3 million
- 2025: $1,530,880
- 2024: $1,448,929
Vaughn Starnes: Total Compensation 2017-2025: $30 million
- 2025: $3,959,981
- 2024: $3,889,780
- 2023: $3,801,525
- 2022: $3,436,981
- 2021: $3,047,634
- 2020: $3,156,691
- 2019: $2,951,076
- 2018: $2,832,168
- 2017: $2,896,328
Louis A Vandermolen: Total Compensation 2017-2025: $27 million
- 2025: $4,050,566
- 2024: $4,031,824
- 2023: $3,749,856
- 2022: $3,048,591
- 2021: $2,677,939
- 2020: $2,714,873
- 2019: $2,351,253
- 2018: $2,214,130
- 2017: $2,471,856
Steven D Shapiro: Total Compensation 2022-2025: $12 million
- 2025: $3,285,046
- 2024: $3,317,744
- 2023: $3,430,161
- 2022: $1,881,400
Charles Zukoski: Total Compensation 2020-2025: $6 million
- 2025: $ 283,615
- 2024: $1,192,059
- 2023: $2,199,544
- 2022: $1,165,409
- 2021: $1,176,696
- 2020: $ 227,255
Rod Hanners: Total Compensation 2021-2025: $10 million
- 2025: $2,498,698
- 2024: $2,347,640
- 2023: $2,064,680
- 2022: $1,661,243
- 2021: $1,410,593
Amy Diamond: Total Compensation 2022-2025: $8 million
- 2025: $2,300,862
- 2024: $1,975,902
- 2023: $1,829,822
- 2022: $2,099,985
Felicia Washington: Total Compensation 2020-2025: $7 million
- 2025: $1,488,898
- 2024: $1,525,314
- 2023: $1,521,387
- 2022: $1,231,832
- 2021: $1,149,350
- 2020: $ 356,253
Beong-S00 Kim: Total Compensation 2021-2025: $7 million
- 2025: $1,592,344
- 2024: $1,510,140
- 2023: $1,413,546
- 2022: $1,214,028
- 2021: $ 469,002
Carolyn Meltzer: Total Compensation 2023-2025: $5 million
- 2025: $1,717,711
- 2024: $1,659,286
- 2023: $1,315,907
Geoffrey Garrett: Total Compensation 2021-2025: $6 million
- 2025: $1,324,377
- 2024: $1,281,250
- 2023: $1,233,888
- 2022: $1,241,563
- 2021: $ 659,658
Laura Mosqueda: Total Compensation 2018-2025: $8 million
- 2025: $ 741,114
- 2024: $ 975,481
- 2023: $1,105,272
- 2022: $1,088,299
- 2021: $1,092,223
- 2020: $1,073,218
- 2019: $1,063,278
- 2018: $ 564,660
David Wright: Total Compensation 2019-2025: $5 million
- 2025: $926,979
- 2024: $898,700
- 2023: $868,231
- 2022: $721,645
- 2021: $758,301
- 2020: $726,566
- 2019: $503,278
Gil Inderbir: Total Compensation 2017-2025: $17 million
- 2025: $3,141,326
- 2024: Not Listed
- 2023: Not Listed
- 2022: $2,894,232
- 2021: Not Listed
- 2020: $2,722,606
- 2019: $2,785,900
- 2018: $2,707,964
- 2017: $2,663,304
Andrew Guzman: Total Compensation 2024-2025: $2 million
- 2025: $1,283,972
- 2024: $1,113,830
Scott Rabenold: Total Compensation 2024-2025: $2 million
- 2025: $1,249,533
- 2024: $1,036,992
Ishwar Puri: Total Compensation. 2023-2025: $3 million
- 2025: $1,086,736
- 2024: $1,057,316
- 2023: $ 828,116
Joel Curran: Total Compensation 2024-2025: $2 million
- 2025: $1,014,910
- 2024: $ 530,352
