Much of the ongoing Occupy movement’s anger has been directed at the “top one percent” — Americans whose incomes are drastically above the median line and who own an amount of the nation’s wealth disproportionate to their numbers.
According to statistics on income division released by the Internal Revenue Service this year, in 2009, individuals with adjusted gross incomes of $343,927 or more were in the top one percent.
Those involved in the recent Occupy Cal protests have publicly denounced UC officials for being a part of that high-earning group of Americans. However, less than one percent of employees in the UC Office of the President and at UC Berkeley have incomes that place them in the “top one percent.”
Of the over 1,400 employees in the UC Office of the President, 19 had salaries over $343,927 in 2009 or 2010 — according to The Sacramento Bee’s State Worker Salary search — thus qualifying them for the top one percent as defined by the tax bracket set in the IRS report.
| NAME | POSITION IN UCOP | 2010 PAY LEVEL | 2009 PAY LEVEL |
|---|---|---|---|
| John David Stobo | Senior Vice President-Designate | $756,874.36 | $705,787.48 |
| Marie N. Berggren | Treasurer of the Regents | $686,674.68 | $637,823.93 |
| Mark George Yudof | President of the University | $560,594.40 | $577,650.56 |
| Timothy Jacob Recker | Director (Functional Area) | $527,126.00 | $332,989.08 |
| William Jordan Coaker | Director (Functional Area)–Exec | $502,672.68 | $287,177.59 |
| Randolph E. Wedding | Director (Functional Area)–Exec | $473,786.01 | $380,688.24 |
| Melvin L. Stanton | Assistant Treasurer of the Regents | $446,703.01 | $401,921.19 |
| Peter John Taylor | Executive Vice President | $446,249.28 | $298,044.85 |
| David W. Schroeder | Deputy Director (Functional Area) | $431,960.96 | $340,665.79 |
| Lynda Hee Choi | Director (Functional Area) | $416,473.00 | $399,322.42 |
| Thomas Johan Lurquin | Deputy Director (Functional Area) | $402,867.29 | $298,424.66 |
| Charles F. Robinson | Vice President and General Counsel for Legal Affairs | $397,182.88 | $408,211.44 |
| Jesse L. Phillips | Director (Functional Area)–Exec | $389,239.32 | $366,960.71 |
| Sheryl Jeanne Vacca | Senior Vice President-Designate | $386,916.00 | $397,845.84 |
| Linda Fried | Deputy Director (Functional Area) | $377,075.96 | $328,631.11 |
| Bruce B. Darling | Executive Vice President | $374,222.70 | $384,781.46 |
| Gloria Browning Gil | Director (Functional Area) | $356,304.00 | $395,864.97 |
| Kim B. Evans | Deputy Director (Functional Area) | $354,771.04 | $311,887.47 |
According to the same database, of the more than 13,000 employees at UC Berkeley, 24 had salaries over $343,927 in 2009 or 2010, qualifying them for the top one percent as defined by the tax bracket set in the IRS report. Employees with the highest salaries were primarily athletic coaches and professors in the Haas School of Business, followed by professors in the UC Berkeley School of Law.
Below are the 24 campus-based employees with the highest salaries in 2010.
| NAME | POSITION AT UC BERKELEY | 2010 PAY LEVEL | 2009 PAY LEVEL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Tedford | Head Coach | $2,349,037.96 | $2,338,409.39 |
| Michael J. Montgomery | Head Coach | $1,859,133.28 | $1,606,588.82 |
| Andrew M. Isaacs | Adjunct Professor, Haas and Engineering | $708,801.00 | $399,582.00 |
| Teck Hua Ho | Professor of Marketing | $613,287.24 | $556,764.38 |
| Joanne Boyle | Head Coach | $598,253.96 | $658,691.22 |
| Jennifer A. Chatman | Professor of Marketing | $440,152.67 | $359,110.29 |
| Anne Saunders Barbour | Athletics Manager | $437,054.53 | $470,017.06 |
| Robert J. Birgeneau | Chancellor | $416,596.00 | $428,712.84 |
| Andrew K. Rose | Associate Dean | $407,590.78 | $283,152.68 |
| Alan J. Auerbach | Professor of Economics and Law | $400,593.93 | $336,398.30 |
| John Morgan | Professor of Business Administration | $394,856.29 | $24,001.20 |
| Christopher R. Somerville | Director | $387,933.21 | $389,533.20 |
| Michael L. Katz | Professor of Economics | $379,493.19 | $206,183.95 |
| Richard G. Sloan | Professor of Accounting | $376,200.00 | $278,850.00 |
| Paul J. Gertler | Professor of Economics | $370,643.11 | $336,635.23 |
| Atif R. Mian | Associate Professor | $365,805.38 | $142,104.46 |
| Daniel Farber | Professor of Law | $360,463.66 | $332,186.26 |
| Ganesh Iyer | Professor of Business Administration | $358,567.85 | $373,320.48 |
| Severin Borenstein | Professor of Business Administration | $353,099.38 | $0.00 |
| Vaughan Frederic Jones | Professor of Math | $351,843.24 | $351,123.62 |
| David A. Patterson | Professor of Computer Science | $351,644.48 | $345,692.05 |
| Robert P. Bartlett | Assistant Professor of Law | $348,765.72 | $110,732.42 |
| Richard K. Lyons | Dean | $348,320.00 | $360,760.00 |
| Roger Van Andel | Academic Administrator | $344,046.88 | $0.00 |
Note: There are multiple ways of measuring the “top one percent,” including measurements based off of total personal wealth or off of salary. In this report, The Daily Californian chose to use the salary measurement provided by the IRS. For this reason, UC Regents are not included in this analysis because they do not receive a salary for their work on the board.
All titles and salary levels are according to the Sacramento Bee’s State Worker Salary database.
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Not only that….Mr Tedford was given a GIFT of $100,000 simply because he failed to watch his own paycheck as the payroll system truncated his year-to-date tax withholding. It was his own neglect yet UC caved into his blunder and GAVE him $100K back 7 or so years ago. It is hidden records.
I think this Physics Prof. deserves a blog on the UCB home page. This guy is a true advocate for the interests of the students. This guy is my hero. http://universityprobe.org/2009/04/budget-lies-a-letter-to-the-president-of-uc/
Does anyone else thinks it is weird there was a shooting today at Haas and many of the people in the list are Professors at Haas? I really hope there is no correlation and I am glad that (as far as they have reported so far) there was no students/staff/faculty injured.
Yikes. Now I understand why we had to shell out so much for our kid’s tuition at Cal.
Read it and weep.
These salaries are a drop of water in the ocean.
The real reason tuition is going up is funding cuts from Sacramento, not the pay of these goons.
I highly recommend that you read myths and facts about the UC budget – it will help clarify many of your budget inquiries (and, it’s a quick read). http://budget.universityofcalifornia.edu/files/2011/07/myths_facts071411.pdf
I wouldn’t trust a list of myths and facts that wasn’t verified by some outside party. Myths and facts written by university bureaucrats are going to be far from unbiased. http://archive.dailycal.org/article/105348/the_university_s_misleading_budget
It is not just the pay of the administrators but it is the growth in the numbers of them. It is also the lavish pensions these people take away. If you want lower tuition reduce the number of administrators and make people save for their own retirement.
An adjunct prof makes $700K?!
Football and Men’s football are the only 2 sports that make a profit in the athletic department; they make so much that they PAY FOR EVERY OTHER SPORT AT THE SCHOOL. Tedford and Montgomery deserve every dime they get. These sports aren’t just sports, they are big business, and they are incredibly important. But yea, Jeff should win some more games.
Men’s basketball*
Cal sports generate revenue? This is definitely a misguided statement, especially when you look at the numbers since 2003. In 2003 the generated revenue of Cal intercollegiate athletics was around 34 million. But how much did we spend? 45 million. Every year we’ve seen a loss in millions of dollars when we calculate our total revenue and minus that from our expenditures(In 2004 we lost, -13mil, 2005: -11mil, 2006:-9.7mil, 2007:-7.4 mil, 2008: -13.5mil, 2009:-13.6mil, 2010:-12mil). It’s also worthy to note that the Chancellor subsidizes around 2-8million per year so our annual debt is actually much than these numbers suggest.
The stadium is also costing us a whopping 136 mil and serves a small population of Cal student and faculty, not to mention that the infrastructure is being built on a the Hayward Fault Zone meaning that the stadium will have to undergo multiple retrofits and even a complete overhaul in the later years.
So are sports important? Yes. It’s a wonderful tradition that gives students, faculty and alumni a continued sense of pride. But with the immediate budget cuts and financial crises the UC is undergoing, it’s hard to say that anybody in any department “deserves” such an exorbitant amount of money.
Your bias prevented you seeing the previous posters point.
At Cal, football and basketball do make millions of dollars, even after overheads and fixed costs.
They don’t make enough to cover the costs of all the other sports, so the IA department as a whole has been running at a loss. So does just about everything else around here.
Tedfords base (state paid) salary would just put him below the 1% line. The rest is from directed donations. And his team makes money. Anywhere else in the world, that would be a good thing.
Uh, shouldn’t we be using that money to fund education, not other sports teams? I think sports are great, you can learn a lot from them, but the public interest is in training our next generation of well-informed thinkers, citizens, engineers, doctors, etc. We can organize sports leagues on our own.
If you make that kind of value judgment, then why not go a step further and only fund useful education like math, science, engineering, business, and law? People can learn about Ethnic Studies and Basket Weaving on their own.
Have you never heard of Title IX?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX
Asking, if you did away with one half of the admin positions listed, would the quality of UCB decline in any significant way?
Absolutely the quality of UCB would decline – dramatically. While I would agree that many staff positions should be reviewed for efficiency, it is UC staff that make this University hum every day, all day. It’s not the administrative or staff that are sucking the life out of UCB – UC staff haven’t had any raise in four years. So while some of the UC 1%’ers got raises of over $100,000, admin staff got nothing.
I should clarify that I am speaking about non-executive administrative staff. UCOP and UC admin staff are not one in the same.
Interesting. “Those involved in the recent Occupy Cal protests have publicly denounced UC officials for being a part of that high-earning group of Americans.” Yes. If you want to refute this, perhaps approach the criticisms voiced by OccupCal folks. Instead there is an attempt to discredit these attacks:”However, less than one percent of employees in the UC Office of the President and at UC Berkeley have incomes that place them in the ‘top one percent,’”
The sentiment shared by occupiers has not been that those EMPLOYEES are the one percent, but in fact criticisms have been directed at YUDOF (among others)…
who IS listed as part of the one percent. So, thanks for doing the research that in fact supports the criticisms made. However, I think it is an atrocity that highlights the lack of journalistic integrity to frame this as a means of discrediting the the claims by protesters that this article in fact SUBSTANTIATES. shameful.
This is disgusting and I hope those who contribute money to the university see this and do the right thing – stop funding it until they all go.
Normally, donors do not fund executive salaries – donors will fund many different things – primarily on-campus projects, labs, scholarships, fellowships or capital campaigns.
Blow it out your ass, you liar.
Three interesting facts jump out: 1. ZOMG, Coach Tedford has an annual salary of $2.4 MILLION? What does that say about our priorities?! 2. What did Prof. Isaacs do to nearly double his salary from $400K to $700K between 2009 and 2010? 3. Chancellor Birgeneau apparently took a modest pay cut last year. That was nice of him, I guess… he seems to be the only one…
just saying that just the pay raise that most of these people received in the last year is many times more than the combined income of multiple gsi’s…
While Jeff Tedford’s salary is shocking on its face, how much does the University receive from the increased television exposure resulting from the substantial improvement under his tenure? Unlike professors, who are often able to launch side businesses based on their research (typically in the hard sciences), do consulting work (law, business) or write books, the head coach of a football team does not have these sorts of side projects available to him. As a result, perhaps his salary is not as shocking as it would initially seem…
Why is college so expenisve: simple: watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A75KERKwEQM
hi amy
Berkeley has less than its share of the 1%! Who knew? We need to get more!