Where Oklahoma athletics director Joe Castiglione stands in USA TODAY’s ‘Athletic director salary database’

Oklahoma great Stacy King (left) and Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione during half time of Oklahoma's game against Baylor at the Lloyd Noble Center on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 in Norman, Okla. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman

On Wednesday, USA TODAY Sports released a database of the salaries of athletic directors across the nation.

The annual average salary of an athletics director in 2013 is $500,000, according to USA TODAY. Oklahoma athletics director Joe Castiglione makes $1,000,000, per the database. But he isn’t the highest paid AD in terms of what the school pays.

This also means Castiglione is the second highest paid athletics director in the Big 12, after Texas.

According to USA TODAY, Castiglione receives no other pay from non-university compensation. However, the database does list that Oklahoma’s athletics director can receive $760,000 in max bonus for “meeting all prescribed performance goals (for instance: departmental academic and financial benchmarks; or competitive achievements of all or specific teams).”

In comparison to Oklahoma’s other Big 12 school, Oklahoma State, Castiglione has a chance to make $1,160,000 more than Cowboys’ athletics director Mike Holder. Holder’s ‘school pay’ is $600,000. According to the database, he has no non-university compensation and also has no max bonus.