At $5 million a year, FSU’s Jimbo Fisher is ACC’s highest paid coach

JImbo Fisher is the highest paid coach in the ACC at $5 million a year. (AP photo)

JImbo Fisher is the highest paid coach in the ACC at $5 million a year. (AP photo)

Jimbo Fisher will make somewhere around $5 million this year.

He's the only coach in the ACC who will earn more than $4 million a year. By contrast, 10 SEC coaches will make at least $4 million in 2015, led by Nick Saban's $7.1 million.

Here's the ACC breakdown, although it's incomplete because the conference's private schools aren't required to release the salaries of their employees. (Many of these salaries are from USA Today's annual report.)

• Jimbo Fisher, FSU, $5 million
• Dabo Swinney, Clemson, $3.39 million
• Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech, $3.02 million
• Bobby Petrino, Louisville, $3 million
• Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech, $2.67 million
• Mike London, Virginia, $2.4 million
• Al Golden, Miami, $2.3 million
• David Cutcliffe, Duke, $1.84 million
• Larry Fedora, North Carolina, $1.83 million
• Dave Doeren, N.C. State, $1.8 million
• Pat Narduzzi, Pittsburgh, not released
• Steve Addazio, Boston College, not released
• Dave Clawson, Wake Forest, not released
• Scott Shafer, Syracuse, not released