SOURCES: Chicago Tribune, The Daily Illini

9. University of Iowa

• President Sally K. Mason
  
• $493,272 in base salary
  
• Total compensation is near $650,000. Mason earns a $150,000 annual deferred compensation package.
  

SOURCES: University of Iowa salary database, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)

10. Purdue University

• Leader: Outgoing President France Cordova (current Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels to take over in 2013)
  
• $475,997 base salary
  
• Daniels' agreed-to benefit package includes unspecified retirement contributions, use of a car, cost-free living at Westwood House. Daniels has asked for a performance-based contract.
  

SOURCES: Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Ind.), Chronicle of Higher Education

11. University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Chancellor Harvey Perlman
  
• $341,053 base pay
  

SOURCE: Kearney Hub

Northwestern University (private)

• President Morton Schapiro
  
• $1,255,653 in 2010 (no publicly available records)