How can he make that much? I heard before the controversy all he did was go around lecturing instead of teaching his classes? I want a job like that when I finally get my doctorate!!
In the mid-1970s, I was at Arizona State U. They wanted to bring in a "name" woman, so they hired Joan Hoff Wilson, a supposed big-name Nixon scholar. They paid her---MID-1970s!!---$65,000 a year. That's equivalent to $150-175,000 per year today, considering the differences in bennies. She taught . . . one seminar in two years. (That is, she had about 10 students in one class over a two-year period).
That's not the half of it: I was in this seminar, and she brought in a tape recording . . . of HERSELF LECTURING and played it while she sat there in person. It was the most outrageous thing I'd ever seen, and the students all agreed after class if she did it again, we were going to bring our own tape recorders, hit "play/record," then leave.