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It comes as no surprise that the University of Hawaii‘s highest paid employee is in the athletic department.

UH Manoa football coach Greg McMackin is the highest paid employee with a base salary. He earns about $620,000 more than the next-highest paid employee across the university’s 10 campuses.

The names on the list of the 10 highest-paid university employees haven’t changed since last year. But seven of their base salaries have increased slightly.

McMackin and the dean of the medical school still make more than the president of the 10-campus public university system. And all 10 earn more than the highest paid state employees outside of the university system.

McMackin is also the highest paid football coach in the Western Athletic Conference, according to a November . Mack Brown, coach of the Texas Longhorns, is the highest paid coach across all conferences, at a $5.19 million salary, according to the report.

Most of UH’s 10 highest-paid employees maintained their rankings from last year, except for the dean of the business school, who moved up one spot to No. 6, bumping an astronomer down one spot from last year.

Here’s a list of the 10 highest paid UH employees along with their salaries from last year. (A list of the 50 highest paid positions is below. Read a related story on all University of Hawaii salaries.)

The salary increases for these employees aren’t raises, according to the university.

UH says the eight executive positions on the list — not counting the football coach or astronomy researcher — received pay cuts between 6 percent and 10 percent during the 2010 fiscal year due to budget cuts.

“Effective July 1, 2011, their salary reductions were adjusted to 5 percent restrictions, to bring the reductions in line with other university and state employee groups,” said UH system spokeswoman Lynne Waters. “That is why some positions show an increase over last year; their salary reduction percentages were reduced slightly from the previous year. They would not be characterized as ‘raises’ since these employees are still working at reduced salaries from previous years’ higher rates of pay due to continued budget constraints. President Greenwood’s reduction remains at 10 percent.”

Here’s a list of the 50 highest paid UH employees, and their titles as provided by the university.