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BOTTOM EARNER

PROFITS ≠ WINS

THE VERY TOP

Until recently, Jeremiah Buchanan was the lowestpaid full-time employee at UI.

Find out which Illini sports are profitable and what that means for those that aren’t.

Find out who the top-10 highest-paid employees at UI are. (Hint: Half are coaches.)

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WHY A SALARY GUIDE?

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mployees’ salaries are one of the main components of the University’s budget.

The salaries we requested this year add up to just under $1.5 billion. With the University’s ongoing process of reviewing its spending and making decisions in this budget crisis, there has never been such an important time for transparency.

In publishing this guide, The Daily Illini aims to continue the transparency the administration has begun. In this issue, not only is the public able to see how Illinois tax and tuition dollars are spent, but readers are also able to attain a sense of the University’s hierarchy.

We feel it is the right of Illinois taxpayers, and the University’s tuition-paying students to see how their money is being spent at the University, including on salaries.

The figures listed in this guide do not include all compensation, such as overtime, benefits and other pay means. It does, however, list part-time and full-time employees. It goes without saying that many factors affect how much each employee is paid, including experience, education, specialized training and skill level. Regardless, our philosophy is that more information is better than less information, and that the more access readers have to this information, the better job the University will do in using that money wisely.

The information provided this year is different from prior editions – in order to provide readers with the most up-to-date information, we’re presenting “Grey Book” data, which is provided by the University with information on academic, salaried appointments.

This means the data for University of Illinois employees is current as of September 2012, when the board of trustees approved the salaries for all University employees.

In past editions of Salary Guide, The Daily Illini has published “snapshot” data from the summer, which took monthly salaries during those months and multiplied them by 12, for each month. These salaries that we’re presenting instead are based on the annual appointments that will carry through the forthcoming year, which also ensures that our database includes the administrative appointments that didn’t take effect until the beginning of this year. For nonacademic, civil service wages, the University provided us with their average salary based on hourly wages for 52 40-hour weeks a year.

This print edition focuses on the context of top employees’ pay compared to their peers, and provides an in-depth look at the budget for the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics. To access the full database of employee pay, log on to DailyIllini.com.

Isn’t publishing people’s pay personal?

Like many other things published by The Daily Illini, state employees’ salaries are public record. Salary Guide does not include personal information such as addresses, phone numbers or social security numbers.

Anyone can file an Illinois Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the information we’ve printed here. And for all academic positions, anyone can download the University’s Grey Book as a PDF from uillinois.edu – but we don’t expect that to be nearly as accessible as the database we’ve presented.

Guide keeps UI accountable NATHANIEL LASH Managing editor for reporting

As

an employee of The Daily Illini, I typically experience two responses whenever the topic of the paper’s Salary Guide comes up in conversation.

“I saw [Professor X] makes [a lot of money]. That’s outrageous!” … and …

“Why do you guys do that every year? It’s so invasive.”

The first, it would seem, is to most be desired.

But the second response – along with all the criticisms we receive about Salary Guide’s invasiveness – are what we hope this guide precipitates.

For the highly paid employees, this should at least help them feel accountable for the thousands of dollars they receive from Illinois taxpayers and University students. But I don’t hear those complaints quite as often from the top earners – those people are used to, at least to some extent, being under some degree of public scrutiny.

For me, it’s always harder to respond to the lower-earning employees. I can’t go to a counselor earning $30,000, and tell her that I’m publishing this simply because it’s a public record. There are lots of public records – some sensitive, some not – that we don’t publish.

It’s about performing a valuable service, and by having and publishing that record, we are holding the University accountable for what it pays all of its employees, not just its top earners whose pay is regularly scrutinized. So this is a tool for you, the reader, whomever you may be. When you’re an employee who suspects you may be earning less than others performing the same job, this Salary Guide becomes a tool for that you. At a time when graduate students are negotiating a contract, when salaries and hiring are thawing out, it’s somewhat advantageous to have every one of these data points completely transparent and available to the public.

The DI first started doing the guide amid an unprecedented level of fiscal constraints in March 2010. Faculty were taking furlough days, pay was being cut, and hiring freezes were common.

So looking at the numbers this year, feel free to muse on the simple arithmetic that we’ve left up to you. After a year of enormous payoffs and golden parachutes – like former President Michael Hogan’s chief of staff, who received a lump sum of $175,000 to agree to walk away quietly – you should wonder how fair that is to those like Jeremiah Wright, who earns a mere fraction of that working full-time as a laboratory helper.

This guide, and its sister database, is by no means exhaustive, but we hope this helps readers understand more how money is spent on this campus.

Nathaniel can be reached at lash2@dailyillini.com.

My professor’s salary isn’t listed in this guide like it was last year.

Is this going to be available online?

In prior years, The Daily Illini published listings of the highest-earning employees on campus.

We will not be doing this this year, but every salary is available in a searchable database on DailyIllini.com. In addition to posting the Urbana salaries online, employee salaries for the Chicago and Springfield campuses will also be available. You can also compare current salaries to previous Salary Guides, although previous years will be based on summer snapshots of payroll, and not the Grey Book appointments that we will be publishing from here on out.

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STRUGGLING AT THE BOTTOM

BY TAYLOR GOLDENSTEIN NEWS EDITOR

Meet Jeremiah Buchanan. He makes $18,824 a year, just over minimum wage.

That’s about 1 percent of the $1.6 million that football head coach Tim Beckman receives and only covers a fraction of what he needs to cover rent, car payments and child support for his 3-year-old daughter.

He is a veteran and a high school graduate, and as of this summer, he had the lowest salary of any paid full-time employee at the University.

Buchanan, 22, is one of 751 such employees who make $30,000 or less per year. He works as a laboratory helper in the Division of Animal Resources.

Like the rest of the more than 104,000 fulltime employees who hold civil service positions, his salary is set through a collective bargaining agreement with the University and union representatives.

For Buchanan, though, his union is nothing more than a name on his pay stub. No one from the union has ever contacted him, he said, and even after about a year on the job, he feels detached from the collective bargaining process.

Buchanan said he wishes he could have more of a say in what his salary should be.

“I would just like to know why I make what I do and why they don’t really see the need to increase it,” he said.

As football and basketball coaches rack in salaries in the millions and top University administrators reliably pull six-figure salaries — even former president B. Joseph White, who resigned during the 2009 clout scandal, still makes nearly $300,000 — on the other end of the spectrum, civil service and other University staff like Buchanan face a daily struggle.

The State Universities Civil Service System is led by an 11-member Merit Board, made up of representatives from every Illinois public universities’ board of trustees, which approves salary ranges. All other universities have one representative, but, as the largest employer in the system, the University of Illinois has three.

“These are tough times,” executive director Tom Morelock said. “Salaries have taken a hit in every classification of our system in the last four or five years.”

The low laboratory helper salary, though, seems to be deterring employees from

remaining in the position for the long term, Buchanan said.

It isn’t enough for him either. Only six months into his University employment, Buchanan began looking for another job, eventually filling in as a medical request logger at Carle Foundation Hospital’s Information Management Center in Champaign.

“I really don’t take home a lot from the U of I job,” he said. “I guess (this salary) could (support) a normal person, but I have other things I have to pay for, so that’s why I had to go out and get this second job.”

But despite the insufficient pay, he said there is one thing keeping him on the job.

“The only reason I still have it, for the most part, is for the benefits, the insurance,” Buchanan said.

University employees receive both state and University benefits. State benefits include health, dental and vision care and life insurance, and the University benefits include some of the same benefits along with retirement plans.

The benefits are a large part of what is keeping child development associate Lisa Pannbacker, another civil service employee, at the University. Pannbacker, 48, had worked for six years at the Rantoul Head Start preschool, a part of Champaign County Head Start. The federally funded program offers free services to low-income families with young children.

“I wanted better benefits, and the University provided better benefits, better retirement, and that was probably the biggest incentive to leave (Head Start),” she said.

Like Buchanan, the low salary of a child development associate has put a financial strain on her and her family. Both of Pannbacker’s sons work in civil service jobs at the University, one a grounds worker and the other building service worker, and they, respectively, make about $9,000 and $14,000 more than she does with her annual salary of $21,370.05.

“When I look at what dollar amount is paid, is my value any less than a BSW or a grounds crew member?” she said. “It’s hard to look at (the numbers). Parents trust their children’s lives with us, and you start out making $9 and some odd cents an hour, and it’s kind of sad.”

Two years ago, her husband lost the job he had held for 33 years as an automobile radiator repairman. He’s still looking for work.

Meanwhile, he has been focusing on corn and soybean farming at home. It’s “hit or

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Jeremiah Buchanan, a 22-year-old laboratory helper, earns $18,824 a year working full time for the Division of Animal Research. Until he received a 38-cents-per-hour raise in September, he was the lowest earning full-time employee on the Urbana campus. Now he’s tied for second-lowest earner. miss,” she said, especially with this summer’s drought.

“For once, I am the sole bread winner,” Pannbacker said.

Pannbacker said there is a misconception that what she does is day care, but being a child development associate, with the certificate that took her four years of training to acquire, requires a lot more work than people think.

“A lot has changed in early childhood education. Children are expected to learn so much more, earlier than what they did before,” she said. “Kindergarten isn’t for playing blocks and coloring anymore. … I’m really challenged to do more of the teaching part now.”

Pannbacker said she thinks that if parents of her students ever found out how much she is making, they would be really shocked.

“Probably what is most difficult thing to accept is that what I do during the day is not rewarded at all through monetary means — it truly has to be that you enjoy working with children,” she said.

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“Even at my age, I love it. I really do,” she said. “Today we were digging in our garden from the spring, and I’m like, how many people get to look at the world every day as a 4- or 5-year-old would? It’s incredible. Everything is new to them. To find a grub worm is exciting.

You may not think so and a lot of the people around may not think so, but it’s exciting when you can see a child and say: ‘Ooh! I found one, too! Here, let’s look at it!’ That’s why I do it.”

Not everyone has that personal connection to their work as Pannbacker does, though, which makes the low salary easier to come to terms with.

Buchanan recently received a 38-cents-anhour raise. For now, he will search for higher-paying University jobs. It’s the system that he clutches onto for the protections it ensures for himself and his daughter, but it’s also the system that clutches onto him, insisting on the incessant washing, sorting and filing that has become his everyday life, at least for 12 hours a day.

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U OF I TOP-EARNER SALARIES

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$1,600,000 TIM BECKMAN

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With the market demanding higher salaries for administrators and coaches, the University has seen growing salaries for all of its top employees increasing.

Position name: Head football coach Term began: 2012 At $1.6 million, Beckman is the highest-paid employee in the University of Illinois’ history.

Hailing from University of Toledo, where he made $400,000, Beckman coaches his first BCS football team, his second head coaching job. Signed in December, Beckman’s contract promises $9 million over five years with potential bonuses for bowl appearances and other successes.

This year features some notable differences from previous editions of Salary Guide. The highest-paid nonathletic official is not the president, but rather the chancellor. The provost, who oversees all things academic on campus, is also among the ranks of the top-10 paid employees for the first time, though it’s that particular employee’s third time on this page.

$1,400,000 JOHN GROCE Position name: Head men’s basketball coach Term began: 2012 After heavy contract disputes, Groce earns $100,000 more than his predecessor. Groce earned $307,985 at his previous coaching job at Ohio University, where he led the Bobcats to a Sweet 16 appearance in last year’s NCAA Tournament. Groce has signed on to make $1.4 million annually over the next five years.

$512,500 PHYLLIS WISE

$489,250 MICHAEL THOMAS

$450,000 ROBERT EASTER

$430,000 ILESANMI ADESIDA

Position name: Chancellor Term began: 2011 As chancellor of the University’s flagship campus and vice president of the University, Wise went through a tumultuous first year where her boss, Michael Hogan, was pressured into resigning. Wise has a $500,000 retention bonus that will materialize in 2016.

Position name: Athletic director Term began: 2011 In his second year as athletic director, Thomas made some noise after firing three major coaches in his first year while all three still had time left on their contracts.

Earning a $14,250 pay increase, Thomas had two teams make it to the national championship, including one winning, along with three Big Ten title teams.

Position name: President Term began: 2012 After several failed attempts to retire, Easter is starting this year as the president of the university he’s been an administrator in for 36 years. His contract is for two years as president, after which time the board of trustees said, his contract will either be extended or the University will start a search for a new president.

Position name: Provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs Term began: 2012 Coming in as provost, Adesida received a 59 percent increase in salary from his predecessor, Linda Katehi. The new job he took in August also reflects a $100,000 raise from his previous position as the University’s highest-paid dean as the leader of engineering.

$402,796 ARTHUR KRAMER

$400,000 TIM BANKS

$400,000 CHRISTOPHER BEATTY

$400,000 BILLY GONZALEZ

Position name: Director of Beckman Institue Term began: 2010 Specializing in neuroscience, Kramer leads the interdisciplinary Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology that involves researchers probing biological intelligence, human-computer interactions, integrative imaging and nanotechnology.

Position name: Assistant football coach Term began: 2012 In his first season as the defensive coordinator, Banks comes from two years at Cincinnati, the same school Michael Thomas came from, and the previous three years at Central Michigan.

Beckman and Banks coached together at Bowling Green in 1999 and 2000.

Position name: Assistant football coach Term began: 2012 Beatty is in his first season as the cooffensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He was previously the wide receivers coach and offensive recruiting coordinator at Vanderbilt, where he coached in the 2011 Liberty Bowl. In 2007, he was the running backs coach for Northern Illinois.

Position name: Assistant football coach Term began: 2012 Gonzalez comes to Illinois for his first season as co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach after helping LSU reach the 2012 BCS National Championship game as passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach.

He spent five years at Florida as the wide receivers coach during two national championship titles in 2006 and 2008.

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

ADMINISTRATION Other top earners:

The University administration is overseen by the board of trustees, which is appointed by the governor of Illinois. The positions listed below are top administrators for all three campuses.

THOMAS BEARROWS

ROBERT EASTER president

University counsel $298,637 $291,353 as of last year

AVIJIT GHOSH

$450,000

PHYLLIS WISE

chancellor/vice president, Urbana

$512,500 $500,000 as of last year

SUSAN J. KOCH

chancellor/vice president, Springfield

$225,500

$220,000 as of last year

PAULA ALLENMEARES

chancellor/vice president, Chicago

$411,752

JOE G. N. GARCIA vice president for health affairs

$805,863 $799,800 as of last year

$388,125 as of last year

special assistant to the president $294,090 $286,230 as of last year

WALTER KNORR

vice president/chief financial officer and comptroller

$312,958 $305,325 as of last year

LAWRENCE B. SCHOOK vice president for research

$336,875

CHRISTOPHE PIERRE

TOM HARDY

$381,777

ROBIN KALER

executive director for University relations $204,287 $199,305 as of last year

vice president for academic affairs

$303,067 as of last year $374,750 as of last year

director of public affairs, Urbana $196,185, $174,000 as of last year

LEADERS OF THE URBANA CAMPUS PHYLLIS WISE

ILESANMI ADESIDA

MIKE ANDRECHAK

vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost

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$512,500 $500,000 as of last year Wise was named the chancellor of the Urbana campus

$430,000 $337,140 as of last year

$235,750 $187,200 as of last year

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PETER SCHIFFER

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on Aug. 3, 2011. Before Illinois, Wise was the interim vice president of the University of Washington, stepping away from her term as provost, which she received in 2005. She also serves as a member of Nike Inc.’s board of directors.

Adesida was promoted at the end of last year to take over as provost and vice chancellor after serving for six years as the head of the College of Engineering. Born in Nigeria, Adesida steps into a role that has not been filled permanently since Linda Katehi, now chancellor of UC-Davis, left in 2009.

Andrechak oversees the budget process annually and monitors the financial health of the campus. Before coming to the provost’s office, he served as the director of the Office of Budgets and Financial Analysis.

Schiffer comes to Illinois this year from Penn State, where he was the associate vice president for research and director of strategic initiatives. He now heads the policymaking and oversight office for the University’s research mission.

C. RENEE ROMANO

MIKE THOMAS

JEFF CHRISTENSEN

JOHN GARRETT DEMPSEY

$228,000 $221,000 as of last year

$489,250 $475,000 as of last year

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$190,000 $176,500 as of last year

Romano began working with student affairs in 1979 at the University of New Hampshire. In Urbana, Romano works closely with the provost’s and chancellor’s offices, emphasizing leadership and career development.

Thomas made a splash after his first season on campus. Hiring new football and men’s and women’s basketball head coaches, Thomas is headed into his second year on campus under the shadow of previous athletic director Ron Guenther.

Christensen comes into the role of director of public safety and chief of police after having already gotten a taste of the job — he served as the interim head before the hiring of his predecessor, Barbara O’Connor.

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DEANS BECKMAN

Listed is a breakdown of the deans of the Urbana campus.

It lists top earners to bottom earners.

$402,796 ARTHUR KRAMER $$320,980 as of last year

MEDICINE

$386,118 URETZ OLIPHANT $386,118 as of last year

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$318,310 BRUCE SMITH

$316,667 MICHAEL BRAGG

$287,500 RUTH WATKINS

$310,500 as of last year

$200,000 as of last year *interim

APPLIED HEALTH SCIENCE

$266,763 TANYA M. GALLAGHER $259,670 as of last year

MEDIA

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BUSINESS

$360,340 LAWERENCE DEBROCK $351,559 as of last year

GRADUATE COLLEGE

ACES

$287,083 DEBASISH DUTTA

$269,633 ROBERT HAUSER

$280,000 as of last year

$279,738 as of last year

$262,875 as of last year

EDUCATION

SOCIAL WORK

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$264,298 MARY KALANTZIS

$240,527 WYNNE KORR

$234,651 ROBERT GRAVES

$257,939 as of last year

$232,968 as of last year

$228,874 as of last year

$224,550 as of last year

LABOR EMPLOYMENT

LIBRARY & INFO SCIENCE

POLICE TRAINING

FIRE SERVICE

$195,326 JOE MARTOCCHIO

$179,500 ALLEN RENEAR

$175,000 JEFF CHRISTENSEN

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BY THOMAS BRUCH STAFF WRITER

When Mike Turk approaches the task of scheduling for the upcoming season, the Illinois men’s track and field head coach will have more than a few hurdles he needs his team to overcome.

He knows that he has the smallest budget in his sport in the Big Ten and one that does not 110 even crack the top 50 nationally.

He understands that his team cannot play close to home in the early months of the season because of the long winters in the Midwest. He realizes that cost-effectiveness is part of his job title. Cheaper fl ights.

Scheduling meets that don’t span as many days. Possibly facing lesser competition.

Eliminating opportunities for his team.

“Something I work on every day is reducing costs,” Turk said. “It is a constant battle for everyone in our department.”

Track 78 and field isn’t the only spring

sport that endures the travails of travel because of cold weather in the early season. Illinois baseball head coach Dan Hartleb and Illinois softball head coach Terri Sullivan migrate their respective teams to warmer climates almost every weekend in February and early March . Tallying up the airfare, food costs and hotel fees for each weekend jaunt adds up to an expensive total.

According to the 2011 fi nancial report fi led by the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics to the NCAA, the baseball team’s travel expenses totaled to $218,463, roughly 19 percent of the sport’s total expenses for the year. Softball’s $131,169 in traveling expenses represents 13 percent of their total spending, while men’s track and field, which also includes men’s cross-country, spent $163,018 on travel.

These expenses aren’t substantially higher than other Illinois sports, but their

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the season another month. That notion hasn’t gained much traction from other coaches and administrators, though, as summer housing and food costs would have to be arranged.

The headaches of Thursday-to-Sunday trips are routine nowadays for Hartleb and Sullivan, but one facet of the travel still irks them. When it comes time for the NCAA tournament committees to select at-large postseason teams, teams from the cold-weather regions are often overlooked, and months of games played away from home go unrewarded.

“I think if you look at statistics in athletics, there’s always a home-field advantage,” Hartleb said. “I think there are a lot of quality northern teams that don’t get the same looks as some of the southern schools get.”

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bottom lines are. Outside of women’s basketball, baseball and softball lose the most money annually for the athletics department. Baseball lost $534,370 in 2011, and softball was in the red $437,640. Men’s track and field wasn’t far behind, with $321,869 in total losses in 2011.

Revenue sports like football and men’s basketball cover these losses in order for the DIA to turn an annual profit, but the perpetual travel and relative lack of home events for outdoor spring sports translate to fiscal blows that the athletic department is forced to swallow.

Innovative measures to combat these costs are the subject of offseason meetings and discussions for coaches in northern United States schools. Sullivan said the softball season starts two weeks later than it did when she began coaching at Illinois in 2000, and the next logical option would be to push back the start of

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Women’s bastketball

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Men’s golf

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Revenues

$587,144

$15,507,768

$810,303

$28,353,822

$428,551

$271,642

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$6,223,196

$2,482,579

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$572,791

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$1,010,431

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$315,903

$406,968

$573,174

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3 Women’s basketball — Jolette Law was fired after the Illini finished the 2011-12 season 11-19 overall. Illinois had marginal Big Ten Tournament success under Law, but could never sustain success consistently throughout her five seasons.

4 Men’s gymnastics — Coach of the Year Justin Spring and the Illini won their fourth straight Big Ten Championship and the program’s 10th NCAA Championship.

5 Men’s golf — Illinois won the Big Ten Championship for the fourth consecutive season.

Luke Guthrie won his second consecutive, individual metal, while Thomas Pieters won the NCAA individual title.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

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VOLLEYBALL

MEN’S GOLF

$1,600,000 TIM BECKMAN

$1,400,000 JOHN GROCE

$330,000 MATT BOLLANT

$145,000 KEVIN HAMBLY

$140,000 MIKE SMALL

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1st season

1st season

$120,000 as of last year 4th season

$115,000 as of last year 12th season

WRESTLING

SOFTBALL

SOCCER

BASEBALL

MEN’S TENNIS

$110,000 JAMES HEFFERNAN

$107,630 TERRI SULLIVAN

$102,820 JANET RAYFIELD

$102,500 DAN HARTLEB

$97,850 BRAD DANCER

$104,000 as of last year 4th season

$105,000 as of last year 13th season

$97,000 as of last year 10th in season

$100,000 as of last year 7th season

$95,000 as of last year 8th season

WOMEN’S TENNIS

WOMEN’S TRACK

MEN’S GYMNASTICS

MEN’S TRACK

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS

$86,000 MICHELLE DASSO

$82,680 TONJA BUFORD-BAILEY

$80,000 JUSTIN SPRING

$79,040 MIKE TURK

$76,880 KIM LANDRUS

$80,340 as of last year 7th season

$78,000 as of last year 5th season

$70,000 as of last year 4th season

$76,000 as of last year 4th season

$75,000 as of last year 2nd season

SWIMMING AND DIVING

WOMEN’S GOLF

MEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY

WOMEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY

CHEERLEADING

$76,875 SUSAN NOVITSKY

$70,720 RENEE SLONE

$55,000 JAKE STEWART

$44,990 JEREMY RASMUSSEN

$20,980 STEPHANIE RECORD

$75,000 as of last year 13th season

$68,000 as of last year 7th season

1st season

$43,680 as of last year 6th season

$20,470 as of last year 18th season

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WERE BUYOUTS WORTH IT?

BY CHAD THORNBURG STAFF WRITER

Bruce Weber is patrolling the sidelines at Kansas State. Ron Zook is working a broadcast booth for CBS. Jolette Law is assisting the Tennessee Lady Vols in the transition to the post-Pat Summit era.

But all three former Illini head coaches are still on Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; payroll.

When Weber, Zook and Law were fired at the end of their respective 2011-12 seasons, they were owed a combined $7.1 million.

In his first year on the job, athletic director Mike Thomas took aim at the underachieving football and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball programs and terminated three of the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest-paid coaches. Zook was fired last December with two years and $2.6 million remaining on his contract. And soon after, Law and Weber were released at the conclusion of their respective basketball seasons. Law departed Champaign with two years and $620,000 left on her contract, and Weber left his orange ties behind with three years and $3.9 million remaining on his.

The Illinois Division of Intercollegiate Athletics is not shelling out the entirety of the buyouts this year but must pay out the money through the life of the contracts.

The buyouts are paid for with DIA funds, which are separate from the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state funds.

The buyouts factor into each sportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget over the remaining years of the contracts and will be treated as staff salaries, tacked on in addition to the salaries of the new coaches and their staffs.

Thomas hired Toledoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tim Beckman as Zookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s replacement for reportedly $9 million over five years. Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s John Groce was brought in to lead the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball program at a reported $1.4 million per year over five years, and Green Bayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Matt Bollant took the helm for womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball with a base salary of $330,000 for six years, not including bonus incentives.

Thomas said in an interview with The Daily Illini last spring that if a coaching change can turn a mediocre program into a successful one, the potential profits could far outweigh the money owed to fired head coaches in the long run. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think people in this community who support these program have shown that if

you have a winning product, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to come support you,â&#x20AC;? Thomas said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One time, Assembly Hall was full on a consistent basis and Memorial Stadium was full very often.

And it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that long ago where we had pretty good crowds for womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball.â&#x20AC;?

Attendance numbers have dropped across all three of those programs over the last few years. The average attendance at Memorial Stadium has plummeted each year since the 2007 Rose Bowl season, falling from 61,707 in 2008 to 59,544 in 2009, 54,188 in 2010 and 49,548 in 2011; however, Tim Beckmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Illini arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t faring any better in that department with an average of 46,013 through this seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first five home games.

For menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball, Assembly Hall sold out for three years straight from 2005-08 at 16,618 fans per game; but more recently, average attendance has dipped to 15,499 in 2008-09, 14,870 in 2009-10, 15,851 in 2010-11 and average womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball attendance dipped to an 18-year low of 1,070 per game during the 2011-12 season. The program attracted an average of 7,407 in 1998-99 but has not reached that number since. It has declined steadily each year since, attracting an average of 1,874 in 2008-09.

Football and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball are Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; only profitable sports, whereas the remaining 17 NCAA all lose money with womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball leading the way in 2011 at a loss of $1.6 million. Football brought in a profit of $14.2 million in 2011, and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball earned the DIA $9.3 million during the same time span. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty consistent for most footballplaying schools,â&#x20AC;? Thomas said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how it evolved and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where we are today.

I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d all like a situation where every programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revenues were exceeding expenses, but at least today, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not realistic.â&#x20AC;?

Thomasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hope is that by shifting the direction of three of Illinois major athletic programs with a coaching change, the teams will find success in the near future and over the long run, particularly in football and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball, where the revenues support most of the Illinois athletic department. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proven that if you win here, people will get behind your program,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Chad can be reached at thornbu1@dailyillini.com and @cthornburg10.

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WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? Althetics budget more than just 7-figure salaries When you pay for your ticket to an Illini sporting event, your money enters a fund that joins the revenue of the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics . As it so happens, ticket sales contribute only about a fifth of the total revenues for the department, but all of that money is put to work. If each ticket in Memorial Stadium were to cost the same, here’s how the University would spend the money, proporionally balanced by section of the stadium that can seat 60,670 people.

Medical expenses $599,459

Team Travel $4,627,605

Guarantees $1,399,589 This includes money paid to visiting teams.

Athletic Student Aid $9,847,571

This is based on data that the University reported to the NCAA on Jan. 23, 2012, reflecting the year 2011. It does not reflect the budget in the ensuing months.

Direct Facilities Maintenance and Rental $20,118,624 It costs a lot to maintain the University’s athletic facilities. This makes up more than 27 percent percent of the DIA’s total expenses.

Recruiting $1,344,243

Equipment, uniforms and supplies $1,524,095

Fundraising, marketing and promotion $2,819,969 Other $5,288,432 This includes membership and dues for conferences, the University’s spirit groups and severance payments paid to coaches.

Game Expenses $2,848,119 Putting on a game requires a number of special staff, like game officials, security, and even ambulances. It all costs money.

Sports Camps $966,524

Coaching Salaries $10,259,368

Support staff $11,833,220 Although individual coaches make more money than many others in the University system, the support staff, which includes administrators and trainers, make more money as a whole.

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HOCKEY LACKS D-I FUNDS

BY STEPHEN BOURBON AND BLAKE PON STAFF WRITERS

Come to the Illinois Ice Arena, or the “Big Pond,” as it is called, on a weekend and you will see the loyal fans of the Harassing Illini and a packed house to cheer on Illinois hockey. One would expect from seeing the spectacle that the team is quite successful.

On the ice, the statement holds true, as the Illini own two of the last seven ACHA National Championships. But off the ice, the club struggles financially, barely making ends meet each month.

The Illinois hockey team is not an NCAA team. In fact, it has no affiliation with the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics at all and therefore receives no financial aid from millions the department made last year.

“It is frustrating,” said junior center and captain Austin Bostock. Because the team is a club sport, it operates like an RSO; Bostock was elected treasurer of the team.

“It’s frustrating when we win the national championship in 2005, go undefeated and win the national championship in 2008, and the school still doesn’t see it appropriate to take steps in a new direction for Illini hockey.”

The new direction Bostock references is the creation of the Big Ten hockey conference at the start of the 2013-14 season, which includes Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State and Wisconsin. Penn State, a club sport just last year, made the jump that the Illini covet, taking a $102 million donation from Terry and Kim Pegula to make the Division I ranks.

For that to happen at Illinois, the Big Pond would have to be replaced with a regulation-size rink, not to mention the funding for equipment, scholarships, travel and other expenses that the club takes care of right now.

So sending Illinois to Division I — and the pretty penny it would cost — isn’t at the top of the list of priorities for alumni and the DIA, especially for a sport that just barely gets by as it is.

On the other hand, becoming a varsity sport would help bring in a lot more revenue than the sport generates now. There would be money from the Big Ten Network for televised games as well as the potential

for greater interest from fans.

“If Illinois was a Big Ten hockey school, there would be no reason why it wouldn’t just take off,” Bostock said.

Currently, players pay $800 per semester in fees to participate in hockey in addition to paying for their own meals while traveling and the majority of their equipment, though the club tries to bear some of the costs.

“I had to write a check for $10,000 for equipment because we had so many new guys,” Bostock said. “We’re not going to make guys who already pay $800 a semester buy another $2,000 in equipment. We try to make things like that work.”

The team pays $1,600 a year in membership fees to the ACHA, as well as fees for individual tournaments. For the ACHA Showcase, where Illinois had its best showing of the year, the team had to shell out $550. Bostock said the entire road trip to Indiana on Dec. 7-8 will cost the team around $2,000, which is generally how much they make on an average weekend for home games, which number 24 for the 2012-13 season.

There is an alternative, however, to putting together millions they would need to go to Division I. The DIA could follow the example of many of the Illini’s peers in the ACHA. Although the likes of Robert Morris University and formerly Penn State are just club teams, they are funded by their schools.

“There are teams we play in the ACHA, not even winning teams, that don’t pay a dime to play,” Bostock said.

For players like freshman forward John Olen, the opportunity to play Division I hockey once existed. During his high school hockey career, Olen received a scholarship offer to play for Ferris State, an offer he held out on pending additional offers.

“The academics at Ferris State weren’t there,” Olen said. “At the time, I figured I’d be getting more and more offers because I was still only 16, so I didn’t pursue that because the academics weren’t there and the campus didn’t really wow me either.”

As Olen’s high school career came to an end, the only offers left were from Division III programs, which didn’t offer scholarships.

Olen instead decided to take the jump

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into junior hockey, hoping to draw attention from another Division I program. Junior hockey is the next level of development for hockey players under 20. Taking two years off from school, Olen finished his junior hockey career with the Janesville Jets of the North American Hockey League. His next destination was Illinois, where he is among one of the team’s leaders in points as a 20-year-old freshman.

Although he would pass up the offer from Ferris State if he had to again, Olen said he still thinks he should at least see some benefits for the amount of work he puts into his craft.

“It kind of stinks,” he said. “It would be nice if clubs sports could get money toward tuition or scholarships. I knew that I wouldn’t be getting anything going in to college and it kind of sucks, but it is what it is.”

“There are teams we play in the ACHA, not even winning teams, that don’t pay a dime to play.”

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he following is a comparison of current base salaries of presidents in the Big Ten. Some of these presidents may receive further compensation or bonuses not listed.

ILLINOIS

MICHIGAN STATE

Term began: 2012 Easter took over as president in July 2012 after former President Michael Hogan resigned in March. Easter was the interim chancellor, earning $355,000 annually, until Chancellor Phyllis Wise was chosen in 2011. Hoganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s salary as president was $650,000 in 2011.

$520,000 LOU ANNA SIMON

$450,000 ROBERT EASTER

Term began: 2005

MICHIGAN

INDIANA

IOWA

MINNESOTA

PENN STATE

$585,783* MARY SUE COLEMAN

$544,848 MICHAEL MCROBBIE

$483,600 SALLY K. MASON

$610,000 ERIC KALER

$515,000 RODNEY ERICKSON

Term began: 2002 *Numbers current as of January 2012.

Term began: 2007

Term began: 2007

Term began: 2011

Term began: 2011

OHIO STATE

PURDUE

NEBRASKA

NORTHWESTERN

WISCONSIN

$834,530 E. GORDON GEE

NOT AVAILABLE MITCHELL DANIELS

$411,370 JAMES B. MILLIKEN

$738,131 MORTON SCHAPIRO

$414,593 KEVIN P. REILLY

Term begins: 2013 *Will begin his term January 2013

Term began: 2004

Term began: 2009

Term began: 2004

Term began: 2007

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he following is a comparison of current base salaries of the top administrators in the Big Ten Conference. Some administrators may receive further compensation or bonuses not listed.

ILLINOIS

MICHIGAN STATE

Position name: VP executive of academic affairs and chancellor Term began: 2011

$361,899 KIM WILCOX

$512,500 PHYLLIS WISE

Position name: VP for academic affairs and provost Term began: 2005

MICHIGAN

INDIANA

IOWA

MINNESOTA

PENN STATE

$470,000* PHIL HANLON

$376,637 LAUREN ROBEL

$375,000 BARRY BUTLER

$399,750 KAREN HANSON

NOT AVAILABLE ROBERT PANGBORN

Position name: executive VP for academic affairs and provost Term began: 2010 *Numbers as of Janurary 2012.

OHIO STATE

Position name: executive VP and provost Term began: 2012

Position name: executive VP and provost Term began: 2011

Position name: senior VP for academic affairs and provost Term began: 2012

Position name: executive VP and provost (interim) Term began: 2011

PURDUE

NEBRASKA

NORTHWESTERN

WISCONSIN

$348,680 TIM SANDS

$341,053 HARVEY PERLMAN

$439,803 DANIEL LINZER

$437,000 DAVID WARD

Position name: provost Term began: 2007

Position name: chancellor (interim) Term began: 2011

$554,559 JOSEPH ALUTTO Position name: executive VP and provost Term began: 2007

Position name: executive VP for academic affairs and provost Term began: 2010 *Currently active-president until

Position name: chancellor Term began: 2011 (interm during 200-2001 academic year)

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