The rate of Cal State salary increases for chancellor and presidents have outpaced faculty. Executives say their pay still lags behind the national average.
We’re a big state with big challenges. Each morning we explain the top issues and how Californians are trying to solve them.One weekly email, all the Golden State newsGet the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.Mildred García, the new Cal State chancellor, is earning a total compensation of nearly $1 million.
CalMatters reached out for an interview with García, but she declined through Cal State spokesperson Amy Bentley-Smith. “The CSU should use the budget … for direct instruction and student advancement, not for continued expansion of administrative bloat and endless administrative positions at the Chancellor’s Office and on all 23 campuses.” At the Cal State Board of Trustees meeting in July, faculty and union members criticized executive salary increases at the university system.
“Even after making the general salary increases and other market adjustments, 17 campus presidents remain below their peer group median salary,” Bentley-Smith wrote in an email statement. on salaries and wages during the 2022-23 year. Of that expense, nearly half, or just over $2 billion, went to faculty. Staff expenses came to one-third, at $1.4 billion. Most of the rest of the funds went to other employees, including student assistants. The smallest slice, just 0.3%, or $14.3 million, covered executive salaries. While the executive expenses increased by $3 million over the past five years, the net percentage of the budget did not increase.
“People in those kinds of positions are used to seeing higher salaries,” Wilde said. “They see that most large universities have overall budgets of many millions if not into the billions of dollars.” “We are a state institution at the end of the day and we have to be fiscally prudent with our resources,” Cal State’s Bentley-Smith said. “So we need to attract and retain the brightest and most talented in order to serve our mission and so we need to pay accordingly to attract those people.”
A year later, they reconvene to discuss progress, after which reviews are conducted every three years, according to Cal StateAlong with increases in salary, presidents are often granted additional compensation and perks during contract negotiations that can dramatically increase their full compensation.
In addition, she said she holds a lot of responsibility in her oversight of a $300 million budget, the success of 23,000 students and the well-being of all the employees.
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