Steve Berkowitz

USA TODAY Sports

In 2015, his final full calendar year of employment with Baylor, football coach Art Briles was credited with more than $6.2 million in total compensation, according to the university’s new federal tax return.

Briles was suspended with intent to terminate on May 26, 2016, and later fired, in the wake of a sexual assault scandal involving numerous football players.

The newly released figures mean that in his last four full calendar years with Baylor, Briles was credited with more than $19.5 million in total compensation.

The new tax document, which the university released Wednesday, showed Briles with $6,234,905 in total compensation, including:

►$5,787,902 in base compensation, which was $460,000 more than the amount he was reported to have received in the 2014 calendar year.

►$372,000 in bonus and incentive compensation, which $168,000 less than the amount he was reported to have received in the 20014 calendar year. The return does not say what achievements or events resulted in Briles' bonus pay. During the 2014 season, Baylor went 11-2, shared the Big 12 Conference title with TCU and played in the Cotton Bowl, in which it lost to Michigan State. During the 2015 season Baylor went 10-3 overall (6-3 and fourth in the Big 12) and defeated North Carolina in the Russell Athletic Bowl,

Overall for 2014, Briles was credited with $5,941,619.

His 2015 base pay figure alone would have made Briles the nation’s fourth-highest-paid football coach, based on compensation information compiled by USA TODAY Sports. He would have trailed Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh, Alabama’s Nick Saban and Ohio State’s Urban Meyer.

Baylor’s new return shows that former athletics director Ian McCaw was credited with $954,374 in total compensation in 2015, including just more than $650,000 in base compensation and $171,250 in bonus pay. McCaw resigned from Baylor on May 30, 2016. He was hired to become Liberty's athletics director in late November 2016

In 2014, Baylor credited McCaw with $814,831 in total compensation, including just more than $600,000 in base compensation and $110,000 in bonus pay.

The new return provided the 2015 calendar-year compensation for other athletics personnel:

►Men's basketball coach Scott Drew was credited with $2,865,975, including nearly $2.7 million in base compensation.

►Women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey was credited with just under $2.2 million, including more than $1.9 million in base compensation and $182,000 in bonuses. In addition, she received more than $67,000 in compensation, bonus pay and apparel from Nike. She is likely the nation's second-highest paid women's basketball coach; Connecticut's Geno Auriemma made $2.4 million in base compensation for the 2016-17 season.

►Now-former football defensive coordinator Phil Bennett was credited with nearly $1.3 million, including more than $140,000 in bonus pay. Bennett is now working as Arizona State's defensive coordinator.

►Baseball coach Steve Rodriguez was credited with just under $830,000 in total compensation, including just over $360,000 in base pay and just under $360,000 in bonus pay. Baylor hired Rodriguez in June 2015 so his base pay likely represents a partial-year's pay, and his bonus may involve a signing bonus or compensation provided in connection with his departure from Pepperdine,

Like other private schools, Baylor does not make public its employment contracts.

Because private schools are organized as non-profit organizations, they must annually file a tax return that includes information about the pay of their most highly compensated employees. Although the returns mostly cover fiscal years that involve parts of two calendar years, the IRS requires that the compensation reporting cover the most recently completed calendar year.

Due to the complexity of their returns, large colleges and universities routinely take filing extensions that result in a significant time lag between the period covered by their most recent return and the date they file.

Baylor’s new return covers a tax year from June 1, 2015 through May 31, 2016, making 2015 the most recently completed calendar year.