Roy Williams is N.C.'s highest-paid employee Posted May 14, 2013 With a salary of a reported $2 million, UNC basketball coach Roy Williams is the highest-paid public employee in the state. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. In 40 states either the head football coach or head basketball coach of that state’s largest public university is the highest-paid public employee in that state. In North Carolina, Roy’s salary is nearly four times what anyone else in the UNC System is paid. (Triangle Business Journal)