Nick Saban's paycheck is getting a little bigger.

Approved on Tuesday by the UA Board of Trustees compensation committee, the Crimson Tide football coach got a healthy raise and a few more years on his deal.

Total pay: $8.2 million average including annual bonuses.

Expiration date: 2024 season.

And it comes with a $4 million signing bonus.

Include that lump payment and Saban's pay will be $11.150 million in 2017.

The structure of the deal is different from those in the past. His base pay actually went down from $6.9 million a year to $6.725 million. There are now annual completion bonuses added to the end of every season. He'll make an extra $400,000 the next two years, $800,000 the two after that with the big payout coming after 2021. The contract calls for a $3.6 million bonus for completing that season.

It was one of many contracts approved Tuesday morning, but this one easily supersedes the rest. Saban's contract was last amended in 2014 after Texas' flirtation. He was to be paid $6.9 million a year through the 2021 season in that extension. That made him the second-highest-paid college coach last season behind Jim Harbaugh's $9 million.

Saban, now 65, has not shown signs of slowing down in the coaching profession. The expiration date of his contract is immaterial at this point.

How long he stays at Alabama is up to him though schools like to have coaches under contract for more than four seasons in the future for recruiting purposes.

"Terry and I are pleased and happy to agree to the contract extension," Saban said in a statement from the school. "The University of Alabama has offered us, ensuring our time here in Tuscaloosa will continue for many more years. This has become our home and we are looking forward to finishing our career at Alabama."

Saban has a 210-61-1 record in 21 seasons coaching college football. That includes five national titles -- four while at Alabama where he has an 119-19 record in 10 seasons. After going 7-6 in Year 1 in Tuscaloosa, Saban's won no fewer than 10 games in each of the past nine seasons. Alabama's reached No. 1 in the AP poll at least once in each of those past nine years.

After being hired away from the NFL and the Miami Dolphins in 2007, Saban's $4 million annual salary made him the highest paid coach by more than $500,000.

Saban's contract by year