I hardly think a 6 digit salary and under the table housing and loans assistance is substandard.
The fact they make what they make is not as much the issue as it is all done in a clandestine manner, for the most part, imo.
My comment was directed at the author of the article suggesting that since UC is a taxpayer funded organization, the people working there should be paid lower salaries than they would expect working at private companies.
I don't know how much credibility there is to the charges that UC is acting dishonestly, but I've witnessed far too many socialist journalists attack anyone making more that what they consider middle class.
If you think that $210,500 is high pay for the CFO for the UC, San Diego Medical Center you're delusional.
Go take a look at some facts about that medical center.
http://health.ucsd.edu/news/facts.htm
They have one of the top funded clinical research centers, but the ting I thought was most notable was that despite being located very near the Mexican border, in an area where illegal immigrants not paying their medical bills is likely common, they can claim the following:
Since 1996, UCSD Healthcare has maintained a positive bottom line, and hospital census has increased by 36%, or 90 patients a day.
Despite unpaid medical bills by illegal immigrants driving a lot of hospitals across the nation into bankruptcy, they are taking on greatly increased numbers of patients and making money.
$210,500, especially when considering the cost of living there, is way low for a CFO of a institution of that size and with that kind of money flowing through it.
The University of California system employs 121,000 people. What percentage of senior administrators in a company of that size, with their kind of responsibilities, do you think makes less than they do?
I suspect that the number is less than 20% if not lower.
You do not want inexperienced or even average people administering programs involving hundreds of millions of dollars.
These aren't 40 hour a week jobs, nor are they for unmotivated or average people.
You NEED good and motivated people for these kinds of jobs, and you're going to need to pay them reasonably if you want to keep them.
To me it sounds like Robert Hogan is likely worth many times his salary to UCSD Medical Center, and he'll likely underpaid even after getting a $33,000 to $210,500. However, instead of being showed the appropriate appreciation for his part in keeping the center in the black, he's characterized as being a greedy scab on society.
He can likely quit and have no problem finding a job with MUCH higher pay.
However, all these socialists see is that he gets paid X number of times more than a maintenance worker, and they don't believe that individual efforts, skills, or accomplishments account for much.