But even before students began calling for Chancellor Linda Katehi to be held accountable for the actions of the school’s riot-equipped police, another criticism had dogged Katehi since her hiring in 2009. Like her fellow UC chancellors, Katehi’s $400,000 base salary makes her a bona fide 1-percenter, earning more than double the salary of Gov. Jerry Brown. Have chancellor salaries always been this high… after a generation of relative stability, chancellor pay has rocketed upward in the last two decades… Kerr singles out former UC Senior Vice President Ron Brady for pegging the pay of top administrators to private sector standards, instead of to state public servant pay. Brady and other UC brass, Kerr acidly observes, stood to profit handsomely by this line of reasoning.

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by Paul Collins, Slate.

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