UC chancellors get big raises, putting them between $785,000 and nearly $1.2 million
University of California chancellors will get big salary boosts — near or exceeding 30% in most cases… Regents also approved salary adjustments for six senior UC leaders, including a 25.3% boost for UC President Michael V. Drake to bring his annual base pay to $1.3 million. In addition, 27 senior managers, including Drake and chancellors, will receive a 4.2% general increase. Regent John A. Pérez said he was “very uncomfortable with the overreliance” on a salary survey data compilation known as the Market Reference Zone used to make decisions about UC salaries. He said UC uses that comparative tool only for the system’s highest-paid leaders and doesn’t evaluate lower-paid employees in the same way…
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by Teresa Watanabe, The Los Angeles Times.