Posted on 11/14/2005 1:11:06 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The University of California paid 2,275 employees more than $200,000 last fiscal year, up 30 percent over two years, even as the system continued to cut student services and increase fees, a newspaper reported Monday.
The salary hikes, revealed during a review of payroll records by the San Francisco Chronicle, occurred as the school raised student service fees 79 percent. UC has recently frozen pay hikes for lower-paid workers, such as custodians.
"This is a huge inequity," said Norah Foster, a library assistant at the University of California, Berkeley, and executive board member of the Coalition of University Employees union. "I see many people who are leaving (UC) because of the pay."
Officials defended the practice, saying UC needs to be able to compete for the best faculty with other national universities. Only 1 percent of UC's full-time employees earn more than $200,000 a year, university spokesman Paul Schwartz said.
"We have had to make targeted strategic investments, even as we have taken a 15 percent cut in our state funding," Schwartz said. "We still needed to ensure we attracted and retained the best people."
The number of employees making at least $300,000 annually climbed 54 percent to 496 last year, according to the newspaper.
"I think part of the challenge is that when we recruit, we have to pay comparable salaries," said UC Regent Judith Hopkinson.
The newspaper also reported that the UC system spends about $1 million a year to maintain large homes for its president and 10 campus chancellors.
In my next life, I want to come back as a California state government employee.
That probably means that you would have to live in California, so I'd think twice about this.
In other words, you want to go to hell?
I read the other week that some bow wow in the UC university system was getting $380,000/year and a house to live in. Sign me up !
I wonder how many of these liberal professors making $200K-$300K a year have been howling about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer under the Bush administration?
The UC system is about as liberal as it gets in this country and to see such salary increases at the expense of tuition has to go into the "do as I say and not as I do" catagory.
BTW, does the UC system really have 227,000 employees?
seems a bit large .. found this..
Here's from the UC web site updated last on oct. 25, 2004
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/aboutuc/welcome.html
When it first opened its doors in 1869, the University of California had just 10 faculty members and 38 students. Today, the UC system includes more than 208,000 students and 121,000 faculty and staff, with more than 1.3 million alumni living and working around the world.
So then the claim of 1% of UC employees making more than $200K is not exactly accurate. In fact, it should be more like 2%.
I also find it hard to believe that they have a 2:1 student to staff ratio. Sounds like the organisation is a bit on the obese side in need of a diet.
2,275
x $200,000 (or more--plus perks and benefits, eh?)
- - - - - - - -
455,000,000 Almost half a BILLION
2,275 is 'just 1%'
x 100
- - - - - - - -
227,500 employees
That's just in the UC system.
The Cal State University system has many more sites.
These are the indoctrination centers where they train yet more indoctrinators.
And the $200K+ Club are surely almost all Leftist propagandists, taking care of their own.
Kudos to the SFChron for the story.
What, now, will We, the Employers, do about this?
Trying to get a programming job at UC has become an interesting experience. I'll elaborate later.
Why couldn't this information have come out two weeks ago? Maybe some of the CA voters would have thought differently about teacher tenure.
Which campus?
UC San Diego
This is the same old tired excuse/rationale everyone else uses. How can every one be attracting and retaining the best people? Seems to me just about everyone has to be paying ptemiums rates for something less than the best. That raises two questions. Why pay premium for less than best? and, if the job gets done with less than the best, why do we always need the best?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.