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LSU head coach Kim Mulkey argues with an official in the fourth period of the game against South Carolina on Thursday, January 25, 2024 at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, h.

LSU women's basketball coach is the highest paid coach in all of women's basketball, according to a this week.

Mulkey edges out Connecticut's Geno Auriemma and of South Carolina with a total salary of $3,264,000 this season. Both Auriemma and Staley check in at $3.1 million.

Texas coach Vic Schaefer is the only other women's basketball coach to make over $2 million at $2.3.

USA Today's study shows that there are 18 women's basketball coaches who make at least $1 million.

Mulkey has a maximum bonus of $750,000 and received $443,000 in bonuses for the 2022-23 season. The school buyout on Mulkey's contract is $2 million.

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