In the NCAA's tax return for 2016, it reveals that president Mark Emmert saw his base salary rise 42% from 2015 up to $2,078,075, according to Steve Berkowitz of USA Today.
According to USA Today, the tax returns indicate Emmert's salary increased by just more than $615,000 from the year before while his retirement and other deferred payments dropped by $200,000. Emmert did not receive a bonus in 2016, but he did bring in $290,185 in compensation that was neither salary or bonus pay, which was $70,000 more than the previously reported amount for the most he received in that form of compensation, according to USA Today.