Terry Tao is exceptional, perhaps the best known mathematician. I speculate (although I can't really know, most salaries are private) that there are less than

Terry Tao is exceptional, perhaps the best known mathematician. I speculate (although I can't really know, most salaries are private) that there are less than 100 academic mathematicians making > 200K. This, in a field that's famous for attracting brilliant, hard-working people.