At the September 12 Board of Trustees meeting, Penn State approved a major raise for President Neeli Bendapudi, bumping her annual base salary from $950,000 to $1.4 million with automatic yearly raises and bonuses that could push her total compensation to nearly $2.8 million.

That’s a lot of zeroes, and while the university praised her for balancing budgets and guiding Penn State’s future, we couldn’t help but wonder what exactly $1.4 million looks like in everyday terms.

Of course, this is all fun and games. Prices can shift over time, but these numbers reflect where things stand right now.

17,500,000 Pages Printed Using PawPrints

At $0.08 a page for black-and-white printing on campus, our president’s new salary unlocks a printing empire big enough to kill half a forest. That’s more syllabi, club advertisement posters, and lab reports than you could ever dream of writing.

What can someone possibly do with this many pages? For starters, you could wallpaper every dorm in East Halls, or just print out all the readings your professor said were “required.”

466,000 Full Laundry Cycles

At $3 per wash-dry combo in the dorms, almost a million-and-a-half dollars secures more LionCash taps than any Penn State student could ever need. That’s enough clean T-shirts to survive every White Out since 2004 with spares left over.

66 Years Of Tuition At Penn State

With in-state tuition averaging around $21,000 per year, you could cover 66 full years of classes, long enough for someone to earn every degree offered by Smeal and still have money left over for a master’s degree.

With this much tuition, you could send your future great-great-grandchildren to Penn State, pay off their fees, and still have enough left over to retire on.

448 Level Three Meal Plans

With each semester costing over $3,000, this annual salary could cover enough meal plans to keep you fed for decades. That’s more than anyone could use in a single lifetime, unless you plan to live in the dining hall full-time.

You could eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner on campus every day for 46,000 days, and still have enough dining dollars left for every freshman who ever complained about the food.

5,691 Student Season Tickets

With each season ticket costing $246, Dr. Bendapudi could buy enough student season tickets for more than half of an entire graduating class, guaranteeing you a spot at every kickoff, every touchdown, and every tailgate imaginable.

1,166 iPhone 17 Pro Maxes

Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max with 256 gigabytes of storage just hit the shelves on September 9. Owning the newest iPhone is usually a once-in-a-while luxury for students, but with $1.4 million to spend, it’s basically pocket change.

With a steep price tag of $1,199.99 each, you could walk in and grab 1,166 of them without thinking twice.

Five Aston Martin DB12s

The Aston Martin DB12 is the type of car you expect to see on a movie set. With a price tag starting at $249,000, it’s the definition of luxury. But with $1.4 million to spend, you could walk away with five DB12s of your own.

Even then, you’d have about $155,000 left over, which could be dumped right back into upgrades for the car. Because what’s the point of five Aston Martins if you can’t throw in a few extra perks?

83,333 Beaver Stadium Chicken Baskets

The infamous Beaver Stadium chicken basket has become an essential for so many Penn Staters on game day. At $16.80 a basket, it’s not exactly cheap.

But with $1.4 million to spare, you could snag roughly 83,333 chicken baskets. That’s enough to feed almost every fan in a packed Beaver Stadium.

Two Full Gavin McKenna NIL Deals

Penn State reportedly dropped around $700,000 in NIL money to land Gavin McKenna. That number turned heads in the college sports world and proved how much the Nittany Lions wanted him.

With $1.4 million, you could snag two full Gavin McKennas without blinking. Penn State only needed to change the college hockey landscape once, but you’d have the luxury of doubling down.