Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini is the highest-paid manager in Serie A ahead of his cross-town rival Carlo Ancelotti of AC Milan, La Gazzetta dello Sport reported Thursday.
With a salary of five million euros a year, compared to Ancelotti's 4.5 million, the boss of Italian champs Inter is close to the top of the European rankings.
Only Chelsea's Jose' Mourinho takes home more: 5.5 million.
Other Serie A coaches trail well behind the Milanese pair.
Roma coach Luciano Spalletti is in third spot with two million while Juventus boss Claudio Ranieri and Fiorentina manager Cesare Prandelli come in joint fourth with 1.5 million - less than a third of Mancini's earnings.
The only other coach in the million-euro club is Torino's Walter Novellino, with exactly 1.0 million, ahead of Palermo's Stefano Colantuono with 900,000 euros.
Livorno's Fernando Orsi is bottom of the pile with wages of 200,000 euros.
England's Premier League is just as lavish as Serie A with Manchester United's Alex Ferguson and Arsenal's Arsene Wenger getting four million apiece, 1.5 million behind Mourinho, and Liverpool's Rafael Benitez earning 3.5 million, a million more than Manchester City's Sven-Goran Eriksson.
In Spain, Real Madrid's Bernd Schuster tops the rankings with four million euros ahead of Barcelona rival Frank Rijkaard with three.
Bayern Munich's Ottmar Hitzfeld is Germany's best-paid coach with two million while Lyon's Alain Perrin leads the French standings with 1.8 million.
