Check out salaries of UC employees. Their pay is going up despite tough times

SALARIES GOING UP: A database produced by the Orange County Register provides the salaries of University of California employees. The Register noted this pattern: "The number of University of California employees earning more than $200,000 continued to grow in 2009, even as the Board of Regents hiked fees, slashed jobs and cut back student admissions. Many of the top-paid UC employees also got significant salary boosts, with 288 people getting increases of $100,000 or greater."

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Comments

[WC]

Your headline is misleading. The salaries of a very tiny percentage of UC employees have gone up. The rank and file have taken paycuts, been given more work, and have little to non-existent opportunities for promotion.

[Ted in California]

"288 people getting increases of $100,000 or greater."

This is unbelievable! With record unemployment and millions working for less than they did 5 years ago UC gives out raises like this?

I thought we were told UC needed more money? Sounds like they have too much and the Governor needs to cut their budget!!!!

[Ted in California]

Raises like that makes UC as bad as the city of BELL!

These UC employees will be retiring will Million dollar a year retirements at this rate! While us no government workers fight to make ends meet!

[Christopher Coad]

Wow. What a misleading headline! While it is true that there are a couple hundred UC employees getting these (very) ridiculous raises, a headline like the one above makes no mention of the thousands of UC employees whose wages are frozen or have been cut, who are working without contracts, who are being furloughed, who are earning below the market rate for what they do (or under the cost of living for where they work), and who are working in fear of losing their benefits, if not their jobs. Your article makes no mention of this, only pointing out that some are getting raises. This is misleading and irresponsible, and is a sign of poor research and bad journalism. As this paper panders more and more to the lowest common denominator, it publishes worse and worse reporting, and reports less and less real news. I used to expect more from the LA Times.

[msladygee]

I am sick of these stories about salaries. Yes, times are hard and if you can get a pay raise then good for you! as bad as things may seem not everyone is suffering and there are still people doing good work who deserve a pay raise!!

[James H]

This is another example of the media's love affair with bashing the UC. What has the LA times done that is beneficial for humanity? At least at UC, treatments for common diseases are found every day. See http://www.beyondtinnitus.com