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While some of us are news junkies and cheerfully follow the Diamondback along with many other sources, not everyone on campus stays plugged in. But if there is just one edition per year that everyone snaps up, it’s the annual listing of salaries. It is up this morning.

It takes a bit of interpretation, unfortunately, so before you conclude how much someone is actually paid then you need to know a few more things:

• A faculty member with multiple appointments (split between departments, colleges or institutes) will have multiple entries. What’s listed in the guide is the spreadsheet entry per unit, and some faculty take funds from more than one unit.
• Even so what’s listed for many faculty is a goal, not what they’re actually paid by the state. Depending on their contract, they may need to bring in outside funding to bring their pay up to this published amount. (Or not – some are fully funded on 12-months.)
• The list may not consistently reflect administrative increments (extra cash given to a member of professorial faculty who agrees to perform administrative duties in their unit) versus overloads (extra cash given to someone who agrees to do some specific tasks above and beyond their base appointment.) Some are factored into reported figures. Some are not.
• The list only addresses state funding. There is plenty of cash thrown about by Deans who tap Foundations that they argue are private and not subject to the disclosure obligations to the Diamondback. Yes, there are employees on this list who, from the state perspective, must appear to be working virtually for free, yet get their main support from these other sources – even though the paycheck still looks the same as everyone else’s. And no, it is not just athletics!
• These values don’t reflect furlough days. (The latest round were not technically furloughs but one-time salary reductions, and so should have been reflected in this report but obviously were not.)

Enjoy comparing this to last year’s guide. You’ll see increases in spite of the freeze – at least for Deans’ cronies and other friends of Central.