Wouldn’t mind hearing what these salaries were that were slashed.. Considering the librarians at the local African American Cultural Center pull down $125k of public dough.
Probably not that generous. From the linked article:
Legally, Fermilab cannot officially accept the gift, but it will allow the University of Chicago to contract employees to work in the lab. Over 50 employees have already left the lab, allowing it to scrape $1M USD in savings.
Granted this isn't a scientific conclusion, but if they were only able to save a million bucks by 50 employees leaving, that only comes to 20k per employee.