Yale Investing Chief David Swensen Tops University Pay at $4.7 Million

  • School has third-largest college endowment at $29.4 billion
  • Yale’s senior director of investments got $3.9 million in 2017

David Swensen in 2012.

Photographer: Peter Foley/Bloomberg
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David Swensen, the longtime investing chief at Yale University, got $4.7 million in compensation in 2017, making him the highest paid at the Ivy League school.

Swensen received a base salary of $843,954 and a performance bonus of $2.9 million as well as retirement and other deferred compensation of $290,080, according to a tax filing released Thursday. His pay was almost unchanged from the year prior.