Kim Mulkey guided LSU women's basketball to its first NCAA championship in program history last season in her second season in Baton Rouge.

Now, she's the highest-paid coach in women's college basketball this season with a total salary of $3.264 million at LSU. It is to be noted that private institutions are not required to provide coaching contracts, so for coaches such as Tara VanDerveer at Stanford, it's unclear what they make.

Mulkey signed a new 10-year contract following last season's national championship and the 61-year-old coach is scheduled by the end of it to make $3.65 million by 2032-33. Her previous deal was for $2.5 million per season and ran through the 2028-29 campaign.

UConn's Geno Auriemma and South Carolina's Dawn Staley are right behind Mulkey in compensation, both making $3.1 million this season, per USA Today's Basketball Coaching Salary database.

Texas coach Vic Shaefer, who coached Mississippi State to two NCAA title runner-up finishes in back-to-back seasons in 2017 and 2018 and Maryland's Brenda Frese, who guided the Terrapins to the national championship back in 2006, round out the top five in coaching salaries at $2.3 million and $1.88 million, respectively.

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Cory Diaz covers the LSU Tigers for The Daily Advertiser as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow his Tigers coverage on Twitter: @ByCoryDiaz. Got questions regarding LSU athletics? Send them to Cory Diaz at bdiaz@gannett.com.

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