Nick Saban is the highest-paid public employee in America: Here are numbers 2-10

Source: Leada Gore at al.com

The old adage "you get what you pay for" certainly is true when it comes to University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban.

Alabama football generated a record-breaking $95 million in revenue in the 2015 national championship season with a profit of almost $47 million. That's a pretty good return even if you factor in the almost $7 million per year Saban is paid to coach the Crimson Tide.

What people often forget, however, is that Saban is a public employee, just like someone who works at the Department of Motor Vehicles or the Alabama Forestry Department. Those DMV workers aren't paid like a coach, of course. In fact, according to a ranking by 24/7 Wall Street, Saban isn't just the highest-paid public employee in Alabama, he's the highest-paid public employee in America.

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1.Nick Saban, University of Alabama football coach, Alabama - $7.09 million

2.Jim Harbaugh, University of Michigan football coach, Michigan - $7 million

3.John Calipari, University of Kentucky basketball coach, Kentucky - $6.88 million

4.Urban Meyer, Ohio State University football coach, Ohio - $5.86 million

5.Bob Stoops, University of Oklahoma football coach, Oklahoma - $5.86 million

6.Charlie Strong, University of Texas football coach, Texas - $5.16 million

7.Jimbo Fisher, Florida State University football coach, Florida - $5.15 million

8.Sean Miller, University of Arizona basketball coach, Arizona - $4.95 million

9.Bill Self, Kansas University basketball coach, Kansas - $4.94 million

10.James Franklin, Penn State University football coach, Pennsylvania - $4.4 million

1.Kayvan Khiabani, professor of surgery, University of Nevada Reno, Nevada - $987,638

2.David Engle, neurosurgeon, Hawaii Health Systems Corp., Hawaii - $786,000

3.Joshua Wynn, Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Science, North Dakota - $674,587

4.Lewis Pasternak, anesthesiologist and CEO of Stony Brook University Hospital, New York - $673,596

5.Mary Nettleman, Dean of the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, South Dakota - $577,650

6.Frederick Morin III, Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Vermont - $559,644

7.Keith Meyer, president Alaska Gasline Development Corp., Alaska - $550,000

8.Mark Huddleston, president, University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire - $492,800

9.Clay Christian, Montana's Commissioner of Higher Education, Montana - $309,207

10.James Page, chancellor, University of Maine System, Maine - $277,500