Salary Guide 2016

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Top paid non-athletic employees Total spent on sports coaches

BY COLE HENKE STAFF WRITER

BY ANGELICA LAVITO STAFF WRITER

1. TIMOTHY KILLEEN $600,000 2. JEFFREY BROWN $460,000 UNIVERSITY SYSTEMS PRESIDENT

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS DEAN

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

3. BARBARA WILSON 4. AJIVIT GHOSH 5. GENE ROBINSON 6. GREGORY FREUND 7. JON S. DAVIS 8. HEITOR ALMEIDA 9. MARK E. PEECHER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS PROFESSOR

BECKMAN INSTITUTE DIRECTOR

MEDICINE DEPARTMENT HEAD

ACCOUNTANCY DEPARTMENT HEAD

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS PROFESSOR

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS PROFESSOR

VICE PRESIDENT AND CFO

10. WALTER KNORR 11. ANDREAS CANGELLARIS 12. EDWARD FESER 13. HARRY E. SEIDEL 14. MICHAEL MOORE 15. VIKRAM D. AMAR ENGINEERING DEAN

PROVOST

NCSA DIRECTOR

LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR

LAW SCHOOL DEAN

$450,000 $393,247 $373,548 $354,986 $346,436 $345,000 $340,359 $334,925 $332,234 $330,500 $326,777 $325,438 $324,900

With the hiring of Lovie Smith in March, Illinois made an unprecedented investment in the football program. Smith inked a six-year, $21 million contract with the University, and after putting together his own coaching staff, the amount of money the University put into football coaches salaries skyrocketed. The football coaching staff accounts for 43 percent of the money spent on coaches’ salaries in all 19 varsity sports. The gap will widen even more as Smith gets into the later years of his back loaded contract. His salary will jump from $2 million dollars to $5 million for the last two years of his contract.

Football $2,000,000 Basketball $1,700,000 Baseball $290,000 Men’s Golf $201,900 Men’s Gymnastics $92,000 Men’s Tennis $132,966 Men’s Track and Field $105,630 Wrestling $115,851 Women’s Basketball $385,312 Women’s Golf $74,665 Women’s Gymnastics $126,000 Soccer $126,130 Softball $120,000 Swim and Dive $81,390 Women’s Tennis $100,000 Women’s Track and Field $107,625 Volleyball $200,000

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UI not exempt from gender inequality

BY CLAIRE HETTINGER NEWS EDITOR

Numbers show that pay inequality by gender is prevalent at the University. Men tend to have higher pay, work as professors and receive promotions compared to female colleagues.

Women make 77 cents on the dollar on average in the U.S. This affects those working in higher education as well. The University is not an exception to pay disparity.

Equally qualified female faculty and staff members consistently make less than their male counterparts.

For women at the University, however, there are some positive things as well, said Amy Santos, chair of the Gender Equity Council and interim head of the Department of Special Education.

The committee released a report titled “Women at Illinois” and she said the data shows “some good things and some not good things.”

According the report, it is meant to be “an honest and careful analysis of the opportunities and the challenges of women on our campus.”

One of the report’s findings was that 75 percent of professors are male and 25 percent are female.

At the assistant professor level, the numbers are 55 percent male and 43 percent female. The associate professor numbers are 59 percent male and 41 percent female.

Santos said that this disparity comes with another issue as well; the positions that are more likely to be held by men come with higher pay.

The non-tenure track faculty

“The justification for that is, are affected by the pay disparity as well, despite the fact that the inevitably, that women tend to classification is made up of about congregate in lower paid fields, 50 percent females, said Doro- languages, tnglish, education and thee Schneider, history lecturer the arts, whereas men tend to be and Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition in higher paying fields: Applied Local 6546 communications chair. sciences, accounting, political sciSchneider said there are dis- ence,” she said.

Others make the argument that parities between men and women, specifically when looking at male it is because women are in these political science faculty and wom- fields that they are underpaid.

Santos said there is a noticeen who teach languages.

But it can be hard to prove the able difference in salaries across irregularity of pay, she said. One disciplines as well, but she said she can’t problem is say exactly that there what is are no recausing it. cords of “ W h y employee should an evaluations Arabic inor other structor be markings lower paid that people than a politcould use ical science to find and instructor track the AMY SANTOS CHAIR OF THE GENDER EQUITY COUNCIL when the equality of Arabic inpay. structor is “If there is no record of evaluation, then female and the political science inwe cannot hold the units to those structor is male and obviously the standards because no standards need for Arabic teachers is very have been established, so creating high,” Schneider said.

Santos said there are many reathat baseline is important to us,” sons that women are in positions she said.

When the female and male that make less money, but that it members of the union are com- is important to study people who pared, there is a significantly are stuck in the associate profeslower compensation for females, sor position and other lower positions. She said one result could Schneider said.

(Women) have to make hard choices about what is important for them as a family, but also trying to do well in their careers.

be finding why more women are stuck and then finding out what is causing this stagnation at the University.

“The University could begin to look at that and address that in a more systematic way,” she said.

The University also promotes professional development to try to combat some of the gender disparities between professor, associate professor and assistant professor.

But ultimately, Santos said, promotion and tenure comes at the department level and so the change needs to start there.

“We are helping the campus to think about and find opportunities to have a climate that would be supportive of faculty of all genders,” Santos said.

Part of the reason the office of the chancellor and the office of the provost wanted to gather this information is for to help the University reflect on the current situation and the needs of all gender representation in the faculty and staff. “(Women) have to make hard choices about what is important for them as a family but also trying to do well in their careers,” Santos said. “That shouldn’t be a choice. That should be something they can do in their jobs as part of being a faculty member here at Illinois.” hettngr2@dailyillini.com

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Presidents’ salaries for Big Ten schools

BY MEGAN JONES STAFF WRITER

These are the salaries of the 14 Big Ten school presidents.

This number is their base pay. They may receive further bonuses and compensation.

MORTON SCHAPIRO TERM BEGAN 2009

ERIC BARRON TERM BEGAN 2014

MICHAEL V. DRAKE TERM BEGAN 2014

MARK SCHLISSEL TERM BEGAN 2014

NORTHWESTERN

PENN STATE

OHIO STATE

MICHIGAN

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1

3

4

$829,616 $818,004 $800,000 $772,500

LOU ANNA K. SIMON TERM BEGAN 2005

ROBERT BARCHI TERM BEGAN 2012

ERIK KALER TERM BEGAN 2011

MICHAEL MCROBBIE TERM BEGAN 2007

WALLACE LOH TERM BEGAN 2010

MICHIGAN STATE

RUTGERS

MINNESOTA

INDIANA

MARYLAND

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8

7

9

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$750,000 $676,260 $626,450 $615,000 $600,314 TIMOTHY KILLEEN TERM BEGAN 2015

BRUCE HARRELD TERM BEGAN 2015

MITCH DANIELS TERM BEGAN 2013

RAY CROSS TERM BEGAN 2014

HANK M. BOUNDS TERM BEGAN 2015

ILLINOIS

IOWA

PURDUE

WISCONSIN

NEBRASKA

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12

13

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$600,000 $590,000 $540,390 $525,000 $510,400

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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Why we make Salary Guide $ $ $ $ $ How we gather the information and the public’s right to know Every year, The Daily Illini publishes the annual salary guide. We do this because we believe in transparency.

The University has an overarching influence on the students and the rest of Champaign County. It is the largest employer in the area, and it is home to some of the highest paid employees in the state.

Our data is pulled from the Academic Administration Appointments book, or Gray Book, which is approved annually by the Board of Trustees.

The data also includes salaries from the non-Gray book, which includes employees who are civil service staff, academic professional staff and additional faculty who do not appear in the Gray book.

Employees will not be in the Gray Book if they are classified as an alternate source of position funding or non-standard appointment calendars.

Data included in the non-Gray Book excludes employees or jobs that are classified as extra help, graduate assistant, pre-doctoral fellow, academic or grad hourly, summer appointment, medical resident, student retiree or unpaid.

It also does not include jobs classified as cellphone stipend, deferred pay, lump sum, one-time pay, sabbatical supplement, temporary assignments or

various payouts.

The guide does not include the pay for students or graduate assistants.

The salaries might be affected by the events throughout the year, including mid-year promotions or unpaid leaves, and do not include all compensation, such as overtime and benefits. Factors such as experience, education and specialized training can all influence how much employees are paid.

The salaries provided are public information. We used a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the salaries of University employees.

The Freedom of Information Act allows citizens to look at public officials’ salaries, budgets and other aspects of the University. Because the University is public, we have the privilege of accessing this information. Salary information for private entities, including some universities, is not accessible to the public.

There is more money being put into the core leadership of the University.

After the tumultuous tenures of people such as Mike Thomas and Phyllis Wise, we can see that the University has put a lot of money into new leadership to ensure Illinois continues to be a highly ranked and well-respected university.

In the last two years, the University has

seen a new president, chancellor, athletic director and two head football coaches.

The people who filled these positions are making more than their predecessors.

Some new positions were added, as well. Most notably, King Li was named the dean for the upcoming medical school. This new medical school is now working toward accepting its first class of students in 2018.

Some departments are also in flux.

The American Indian Studies Program currently has no core faculty and is attempting to rebuild. The future of the College of Media, lead by an interim dean, is reevaluating what the college needs to do to stay successful.

In this edition of the Salary Guide, we have stories about locksmiths, Lovie Smith’s contract compared to the contracts of football coaches of other Big Ten universities and other stories about where University money goes.

With the state dealing with budget issues, and many students are voicing their concerns with several issues at the University.

We hope the information provided will help keep officials accountable.

The entirety of the Salary Guide can be found on The Daily Illini’s website. To find the full list of salaries online in our database, visit salaryguide.dailyillini.com.

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Compensation for prominent UI executives past, present

BY MEGAN JONES STAFF WRITER UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT

CHANCELLOR

HEAD FOOTBALL COACH

PROVOST

TIMOTHY KILLEEN

ROBERT JONES

LOVIE SMITH

EDWARD FESER

$649,000

$2,000,000

$330,500

FORMER UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT

FORMER INTERIM CHANCELLOR

FORMER HEAD FOOTBALL COACH

FORMER PROVOST

ROBERT EASTER

BARBARA WILSON

BILL CUBIT

IIESANMI ADESIDA

$450,000

$915,000

$460,416

FORMER HEAD FOOTBALL COACH

BECKMAN INSTITUTE DIRECTOR

$600,000

Killeen is eligible for annual incentive-based compensation of $100,000, which he received this year.

$478,558

Jones’ salary is comprised of $225,000 a year as a crop sciences faculty member and $424,000 as chancellor.

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE DEAN

Wilson currently makes $450,000 as the Executive Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

FORMER CHANCELLOR

DR. KING LI

PHYLLIS WISE

TIM BECKMAN

GENE ROBINSON

$650,000

$549,069

$1,800,000

$373,548

Fifty-one percent of his salary is paid by the University and 49 percent is paid by Carle Foundation.

None of his salary is paid for by state funding.

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Salaries vary by department, college size

BY CLAIRE HETTINGER NEWS EDITOR

Some departments spend a lot on salaries, and some spend a little. This contrasts University departments spending the most and the least on salaries. The totals represent faculty size, also.

Top five colleges

Bottom five colleges

Liberal Arts & Sciences

Division of General Studies $188,686,285

Engineering

$1,150,420

Energy Services

$168,554,470

Vice Chancellor Research Institutes

$953,056

Provost Academic Programs

$101,130,855

Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences

Services $65,275,413

$749,433

College of Business

$248,147

Armed Forces

$54,320,566

$127,830

There are 58 departments that spend less than $100,000 on salaries and there are others that spend millions. These are the seven departments that spend more than $10 million on salaries.

Intercollegiate Athletics

Cooperative Extension

$20,527,896

$15,676,192

NCSA $15,332,010

Electrical & Computer Eng

Computer Science

$13,886,254

$10,845,762

Accountancy

Law

$10,357,730

$10,115,549

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After three years of renovations, the University will officially dedicate State Farm Center on Nov. 29 2015 during the men’s basketball game against North Carolina State.

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How were State Farm Center renovations paid for?

BY JOEY FIGUEROA STAFF WRITER

Explanation of funding “The SFC (State Farm Center) renovation costs were funded by bond proceeds. The bonds will be repaid over a 30-year period from a variety of sources: naming rights, campaign gifts, premium seating revenue, ticket revenue, student fees, etc. The actual mix of the sources used to fund an annual bond payment will vary from year to year. Additionally, a portion of the bonds are variable rate and callable; affecting the total amount to be paid,” wrote Susan Young, executive senior associate of athletics and DIA chief financial officer, in an email.

Here’s where the funds came from for the $16.62 million paid in the 2016 fiscal year.

Bond Payment and Related Expenses Debt payment..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... $16,319,000 Bond fees................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... $295,000 University Administrative Fees................................................................................................................................................................................................ $10,000 Total Payments................................................................................................................................................................................................................... $16,624,000

Funding sources Gifts (naming rights, campaign gifts and FY16 premium seating revenue).................................................................................................................................................................................................. $13,801,000 Student Fees.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................$2,291,000 Ticket sales and other departmental funds.............................................................................................................................................................................$532,000 Total Funds............................................................................................................................................................................................................................$16,624,000

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What $900 million can buy, other

BY JACOB SINGLETON ASSISTANT DESIGN EDITOR

The University pays its faculty and staff more than $900 million dollars. To put this number in context, here are some other ways to spend this much money.

90% of Instagram ($1 billion)

2.5 Boeing 747s ($357 million)

In 2012, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion: $300 million in cash and the rest in Facebook stock.

A Boeing 747 jet costs $357 million. The money the University spends on salaries could buy 2.5 Boeing 747s, which are common large commercial airliners.

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than paying University manpower 450 BeyoncĂŠ shows ($2 million)

A portion of a U.S. soccer team

Water for 4 percent of the world

The star reportedly received $2 million to play at a private New Year’s Eve party in 2009.

The Colorado Rapids were valued at $105 million in 2015. There are other similarly priced soccer and hockey teams to choose from, as well (baseball, football and basketball tend to be priced in the billions).

$30 can provide one person with clean water for a year. That means the University could provide clean water to 30 million people, or the 4 percent of people worldwide in need of clean water.

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A lock on a mailboxin Lincoln Hall is taken care of by the seven locksmiths on staff at the University.

Locksmiths are key to campus safety

BY LILLIAN BARKLEY FEATURES EDITOR

University Facilities and Services locksmiths fix locks in old, new buildings It’s 8:30 Wednesday morning, and there’s already a line out the door at the key shop in the Facilities and Services building. Rows of shining keys hang from a large corkboard behind the counter, and even more large rings covered in keys fill a side room.

The key shop is home to the seven locksmiths that handle every lock on campus,

so their services are in demand 24 hours a day.

“Here at the U of I, anything that’s got a lock on it, we service. That means everything from the buildings that are 100 years old with locks that are 100 years old up to the new access control systems and everything in between,” said Richard Allen, a locksmith who has been working for the

University for nine years. He’s been a locksmith for 30 years.

Allen, like all of the locksmiths, began his training through an apprenticeship.

“Most locksmiths don’t have any pretraining. It’s almost all on-the-job training. Someone takes you under their wing and teaches you what you need to know.

There are some schools, but for the most

part, schools don’t teach you enough to really go out and do the job. You have to have someone who will train you and teach you everything you need to know,” he said.

This training can be especially complicated at the University because of the wide variety of locks that need to be fixed. There is no manual, so the learning process tends to be very involved.

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“You’re going to be under water for the first six months. I guarantee you won’t have any clue as to what you’re doing for six months, and then maybe you’ll start to float for a little bit, and eventually you’ll reach a point where you’re able to do something, but I’d say it’s a good year, year-and-a-half before you’re really able to go out and do anything by yourself comfortably,” Allen said.

There are over 600 buildings on campus, and many of the older buildings have locks that can’t be replaced.

“There’s definitely not any parts available for most of them, but the things that you will find is that a lot of the hundred year old locks still work absolutely fine.

They may need a little lubrication, a little something to keep them going. I can guarantee the stuff that’s being made today won’t be here 100 years from now,” Allen said.

Most of the doors on campus have a mortice lock — a specific type of lock that fits in an opening carved into the door.

Each lock is sized differently, which means the locksmith must sit down and figure out what specifically needs to be fixed. If a door needs a replacement lock, a locksmith may use woodworking to rebore a new pocket to fit the lock.

Newer buildings have the added challenge of electronic locks.

“Thirty years ago, there were no electronic locks … today, as we start to see things moving more and more toward electrified, the position is showing more and more requirements for basic electricity and understanding of current. It’s going to change again, I’m sure, as time goes by,” Allen said.

There’s no “typical day” for a campus locksmith. Though work orders are issued at the beginning of the day, emergencies need to be dealt with first.

“This job is very much reactionary. It’s not something where someone says, ‘Oh, my lock’s broken,’ that you can put them on the schedule for next week. We go and we fix it as soon as possible, and it’s almost always the same day,” Allen said.

“It’s always variable, which is one of the things that’s nice about the job: you never know for sure what you’re going to do.”

The only standard thing is the schedule:

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locksmiths follow the University’s employee schedule for each day. However, there are always a few employees on call to handle emergencies at any hour. The locksmiths are called in directly by the police if there’s an issue after hours.

Most of the emergencies have to do with professors being locked out of their classroom or a key not working correctly.

The main after-hours emergency is an exterior door not locking, meaning the building can’t be secured. The locksmith will find a temporary solution until something permanent can be done the next morning.

Much like the locks, no emergency is exactly the same.

“The biggest thing about this is because

Campus keeps growing, security’s more of an issue, yet we’re still trying to get by with less employment.

JOHN VINCENT UNIVERSITY LOCKSMITH

more of an issue, yet we’re still trying to get by with less employment.”

The shop had eight locksmiths until October, when one retired and was not replaced.

“We could always use more people.

Whether or not we get more people, I don’t know. Depends on the budget, I’m sure,” Allen said.

The locksmiths are paid a $59,987.20 yearly salary, according to the University’s grey book.

“Salary rates and ranges for locksmiths are regulated by the policies and personnel programs of the State Universities Civil Service System based upon subscribed skills, experience, training and education,” Steve Breitwieser, who handles communications for Facilities and Services, wrote in an email.

Though the pay grade is roughly the same as that of University administrative aides and assistants, the locksmiths are all working on campus for a reason.

“We’ve all gravitated to this position because it’s a good position. Pay and benefits are good. We have no real complaints there,” Allen said. “I think it’s a good profession. I mean, it’s paid my bills for a long time. I don’t know where it’s going in the future, I think they’re always be a locksmith position.”

Though many students on campus might not be aware that locksmiths even exist, locksmiths have influence over all of the master systems that protect the buildings.

“While many at the University have experienced work by the locksmiths firsthand when requesting and obtaining new keys and copies or repairing locks or door hardware, their services and contributions are numerous,” Breitwieser wrote.

The necessity of working with locksmiths firsthand is part of the reason why most students will likely never interact with them.

“Unless you physically deal with us on a daily basis, you’re not going to know, but the minute your lock doesn’t work, you really want the locksmiths to come solve your problem, and then you realize that we are here,” Allen said.

it’s a university, you never know what you’re going to deal with. If you get into some of the animal rooms and some of the interesting animals, if you go out to VetMed and happen to be whatever large animal they might be working on at the time, you never quite know what you’re going to run into,” Allen said. “It’s a constant variable, you just never know, especially with a campus this large.”

It’s only 9 a.m., but John Vincent, an Engineering alumnus who has worked at the locksmith shop for 11 years, has already been notified of an emergency situation.

Someone in a hoodie has gotten into a concessions room. No money has been stolen, but the room may need to be rekeyed if the keys have gotten into the wrong hands.

“Our shop actually is down on manpower even from what we were 15 years ago,” Vincent said. “We’ve got a lot more buildings now to cover than we ever did before. Campus keeps growing, security’s lbarle2@dailyillini.com

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