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Tennessee’s Butch Jones now making $4.1 million after pay hike

Butch Jones gestures that he wants to speak with the referee. The Vanderbilt Commodores visited the Tennessee Volunteers in SEC football action November 28, 2015.
Butch Jones gestures that he wants to speak with the referee. The Vanderbilt Commodores visited the Tennessee Volunteers in SEC football action November 28, 2015. Butch Jones gestures that he wants to speak with the referee. The Vanderbilt Commodores visited the Tennessee Volunteers in SEC football action November 28, 2015.

By Patrick Brown 4 min read

KNOXVILLE – December is becoming a pretty good month for Butch Jones’s bank account.

Tennessee’s third-year football coach is getting another raise from the Volunteers, and this one is pushing his annual salary closer to the top half of the Southeastern Conference.

Jones will receive a $500,000 bump that will make his yearly salary $4.1 million in 2016, the school announced Monday afternoon.

Even though last December he received a $650,000 raise with a two-year contract extension through the 2020 season, Jones was only the 11th-highest paid coach in the conference in 2015.

His new salary would have tied him with Auburn’s Gus Malzahn for the fifth-highest in the SEC this season.