Here’s what the top payees at WSU make. Sure helps being a sports coach or a director / dean / professor / president / chancellor.
Pretty good money to be made by not teaching and being in an administrative position.
A petition calling for cuts of as much as 30 percent to administrators’ salaries at Washington State University has garnered 1,000 signatures, most of which are said to be WSU staff, students and alumni.
The petition, initiated in late November in an effort to balance WSU’s $30 million deficit, comes after 350 graduate teaching and research assistants in the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture were informed of a 16.5 percent to 19 percent stipend reduction next year, as well as the cutting of the entire WSU Performing Arts Department and its staff.
While WSU has tasked each of its departments to cut 2.5 percent from its budget each of the next three years to make up the $30 million hole, the petition proposes making up the deficit with a cut to the university’s top paid officials.
The petition proposes a 30 percent cut to salaries of administrators making $300,000 or more, a 20 percent cut to those making between $200,000 and $299,000, and a 10 percent cut to those making between $100,000 and $199,000.If successful, it would save an estimated $4.7 million annually alone from cuts to the salaries of 70 administrators making $200,000 or more.