North Carolina: NCSU defends Mary Easley’s big raise

by E Wayne Ross on July 3, 2008

The News & Observer: NCSU defends Mary Easley’s big raise

RALEIGH – N.C. State University’s top academic officer today defended a $79,700 raise awarded to Mary Easley this week.

Easley, wife of Gov. Mike Easley, is an executive in residence and senior lecturer in the provost’s office at NCSU. Her job duties have expanded and she will get more money for it.

Effective July 1, her salary went from $90,000 to $170,000, according to personnel records from N.C. State.