Here's some useful info/links for Public Salaries for ALL States
This site has all states….Public Employee Salaries, plus many other items of interest…
sunshinereview.org
Another useful site for all states and public employees salaries,,,
pibuzz.com
This is for WA State….
sunshinereview.org
Top 100 highest paid higher education employees in WA State 2009 --Note that these salaries do NOT include benefits, which usually add about 40% more to the overall pay!!!
media.thenewstribune.com
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Who is the highest paid state worker in Washington?
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Posted by Joe Turner @ 10:18:36 am
Look it up. Technically, it's Elson Floyd, president of Washington State University. But I don't have much confidence in the figures that the state is putting out because I can't tell how much the salary numbers have been "massaged."
Floyd's annual pay was $725,000 a year ago, but he gave back $100,000, so now it's $625,000. (On the other hand, he had gotten a $125,000 pay raise in August 2008, so he gave back most, but not all, of it.)
Floyd's "base pay" is $625,000, but for total compensation, University of Washington president Mark Emmert tops $900,000 and UW football coach Steve Sarkisian gets more than $1 million, altogether.
The report is supposed to be the "base salary" for state workers as of January of this year. So a lot of the "other compensation" has been omitted. Here's a link to Frequently Asked Questions about the salary stuff.
UW Husky coach Steve Sarkisian is on the College List at No. 37 with a $300,000 salary. But that doesn't count all the TV and radio shows and his living quarters, etc.
Wazzu is paying 2 football coaches this year. Bill Doba gets $494,960 because he still has a year left on his contract, said OFM spokesman Glenn Kuper. Paul Wulff, the new coach, appears to be making $287,496 a year, if you add both elements of his salary in the database. He wasn't even listed in the Top 100. But he undoubtedly would be if all of his compensation were included.
Here are the Top 100 for higher education workers and for everybody else in state government.
Below is a story written by The Associated Press back in November 2008, when Floyd and UW president Mark Emmert turned down pay raises for 2009. You'll notice that Emmert's pay was about $905,000 then, yet he's on the books in January 2009 at only $620,004. That figure doesn't include his car allowance for the year or his $250,000 a year in deferred compensation.
Here is a link to the Office of Financial Management site and its very, very tardy report on state worker salaries. (The report usually comes out Jan. 31 in odd-numbered years. But this year, the governor's budget office spent no less than SEVEN months verifying all the salary information because they didn't want to embarrass any state worker by overstating his or her salary.)
University presidents take less pay
Washington State University's president takes a $100,000 salary cut and University of Washington's president forgoes a raise.
By Donna Gordon Blankinship; The Associated Press
Saturday,November 22, 2008
Edition: SOUTH SOUND, Section: Front Page, Page A01
A few days after a national report on the salaries of college presidents showed the leaders of the University of Washington and Washington State University are among the best paid in the nation, both men announced they would be taking voluntary pay cuts.
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Washington State University President Elson Floyd told the WSU Board of Regents on Friday that he would take a $100,000 cut in response to budget problems.
"These are exceedingly tough times for my students, faculty and staff. We will be asking them to think more creatively and work harder with less as we deal with budgetary restraints. It is incumbent on me to lead by example," Floyd told the regents.
The regents said they "reluctantly" granted Floyd's request and that his salary will drop to $625,000 a year, effective Jan. 1.
"This action on his part only reinforces our belief that he is the right person at the helm to lead WSU through the challenging times ahead," Francois Forgette, chair of the Board of Regents, said in a statement.
UW President Mark Emmert, who earns about $905,000 a year, told the UW Board of Regents he would forgo a pay raise this year.
Emmert said Thursday that he decided to forgo a raise because "in light of what's going on with the budget and the university's finances, it seemed like a prudent thing to do," The Seattle Times reported.
The two boards met jointly Friday in Eastern Washington to discuss the economic downturn and its expected impact on higher education. Gov. Chris Gregoire attended the meeting in advance of this weekend's Apple Cup football game between the two schools.
In an e-mail to university faculty, students, staff, alumni and supporters Thursday, Floyd wrote of the global economic crisis and the state's revenue forecasts and how WSU was trying to meet the challenge.
He said WSU officials began looking for ways to cut back last February and had already identified $3 million in savings without layoffs. He said the cuts would not affect instruction, the WSU libraries or the regional campuses. But more cuts are on the way.
The governor's office has asked all the state's colleges, universities and agencies to examine their budgets for ways to cut as much as 20 percent for the next two-year budget cycle.
"I realize these reports are troubling, but I remind you all that the governance and legislative process is just beginning and there is much that we do not know about the eventual shape of the budget and how it might impact WSU," Floyd wrote.
The UW regents completed their annual review of Emmert on Thursday and said he had done an exceptional job, but they did not consider a pay raise, at his request. The Seattle Times reports Emmert also sits on the boards of two companies that pay him $340,000 a year in cash and stock.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported earlier in the week that Emmert is the second-highest-paid public university president in the nation. No. 1 is the president of Ohio State University.
Floyd is ranked 17th among public university presidents. His ranking did not include a $125,000 raise he received in August, so his $100,000 salary decrease won't affect his national ranking.
By comparison, the president of the United States draws an annual salary of $400,000.
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