UArizona announces pay cuts, furloughs for all faculty, staff

KGUN - Tucson ^ | 18 April 20 | Sam Radwany

[Bruiser 10]

The University of Arizona announced temporary pay cuts and furloughs to its 15,000 employees Friday morning as its campus remains shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In an email to all staff and faculty, UArizona President Robert Robbins announced the changes, which vary in effect depending on employees' salary.

Here are the graded pay cuts, taken verbatim from Robbins's email:

For those within the salary bands up to $44,449 a year, a furlough of 13 days to be taken over time For those within the salary bands of $44,500 to $75,000 a year, a furlough of 26 days to be taken over time For those within the salary bands of $75,001 to $150,000 a year, a furlough of 39 days to be taken over time For those within the salary bands of $150,001 to $199,999 a year, a straight salary reduction of 17% For those within the salary bands of $200,000 or more a year, a salary reduction of 20%

[wally_bert]

Coaches are apparently immune to cuts or so it seems.

I was a lowly state and university employee who made enough to sort of live on doing technical jobs. Like many.

Seeing a sports blowhard being overpaid with state money and pulling endorsements is insulting.

Put the coaches on a normal state pay scale. Endorsements they can still get. Private money.

[gcparent]

Agree. Meanwhile the players starve.

[wally_bert]

Sickening.

However, plenty of defenders of the high and mighty overpaid college ball coach.

[txrefugee]

When people pay $200 a ticket to see a math or science professor teach their subject, then you can cut coaches’ salaries.

[Chickensoup]

In the 1970s Governor of small states were not a big paying jobs. In Maine, Brennan took home 35K IIRC in his first win for governorship back in the late seventies.

[amihow]

Can we hope all who are affected are the teachers spewing out relativism and subjectivism?