Where Does David Cutcliffe Rank In ACC Coach's Pay

Salary for Duke coach, colleagues, released by USA Today

Duke football coach David Cutcliffe ranks tenth in the ACC in pay, according to a survey of major college football coaching salaries released on Tuesday by USAToday.

Cutcliffe's contract, which was extended through the 2022 season in May, is worth $2,669,345 annually. Since Duke is a private school, information about bonuses and buyouts have not been released to the public.

Cutcliffe’s salary makes him the tenth-highest paid of the ACC's 14 head coaches and 53rd nationally.

Clemson's Dabo Swinney tops the list (both in the ACC and nationally) at $9.255 million per year in salary.

Of Duke’s 10 opponents who released salary information (Miami didn’t release salary information for new coach Manny Diaz, and NC A&T is not an FBS team), six coaches make more than Cutcliffe. Alabama’s Nick Saban makes $8,857,000. Virginia Tech’s Justin Fuente, Virginia’s Bronco Mendenhall, UNC’s Mack Brown, Pitt’s Pat Narduzzi and Georgia Tech’s Geoff Collins all make $3 million or more.

Cutcliffe makes just over $400,000 more than Syracuse’s Dino Babers and Wake Forest’s Dave Clawson. He makes a million dollars more than Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly and $1.7 million more than Middle Tennessee’s Rick Stockstill.

Former Cutcliffe assistant Matt Luke, now coaching Ole Miss, makes $3.1 million, ranking eight spots above his former boss on the list.

Here's the complete list of ACC coaching salaries (private schools not required to release full details):