BATON ROUGE, La. ( Louisiana Illuminator ) – LSU could pay its new president and chancellor millions annually under lucrative contracts that include dozens of incentives, some of which have no limits.

System President Wade Rousse and main campus Chancellor Jim Dalton, both hired last month, will each receive a base salary of $750,000. It’s the same compensation LSU paid William Tate, who was both president and chancellor before leaving for the same job at Rutgers University in New Jersey earlier this year.

Rousse and Dalton can receive dozens of bonuses on top of their base salaries for meeting certain benchmarks. They include one-time payments as well as bonuses worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that renew annually. Some of the incentives are also duplicated, meaning LSU will pay

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