San Francisco Chronicle: UC piling extra cash on top of pay; 8,500 top staffers pulling down at least $20,000 each in bonuses, compensation
When the University of California hired David Kessler as dean of the UCSF School of Medicine two years ago, the university announced he would receive “total compensation” of $540,000 a year.
Turns out he actually got much more.
In addition to his salary, he received a one-time relocation allowance of $125,000, plus $30,000 for six months’ rent and a low-interest home loan.
There was more. He was reimbursed for his actual moving costs from Connecticut, and his family received round-trip airline tickets to go house-hunting in the Bay Area.
Kessler is hardly unique. Despite UC’s complaints that it has been squeezed by cuts in state funding and forced to raise student fees, many university faculty members and administrators get paid far more than is publicly reported.
In addition to salaries and overtime, payroll records obtained by The Chronicle show that employees received a total of $871 million in bonuses, administrative stipends, relocation packages and other forms of cash compensation last fiscal year. That was more than enough to cover the 79 percent hike in student fees that UC has imposed over the past few years.
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