Who is highest paid employee at Ohio State?

Ohio State University paid men’s basketball head coach Thad Matta $5.8 million last year and men’s football head coach Urban Meyer $4.5 million, making the two the highest paid public employees in the state.

The university paid out more than $1 million in compensation to 11 men, according to 2015 pay data released by OSU on Friday. OSU’s payroll totalled $2.25 billion last year and the university employed 39,543 people.