At the beginning of the month, the big news was that Nicholas Dirks, executive vice president of Arts and Sciences, was stepping down to become the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.
Yesterday, the big news was that the governor of California, Jerry Brown, wasn't happy about just how much Dirks was going to get paid, and that regents still went ahead and approved his salary.
How much you ask? $486,000 plus $8,916 as a part of a car allowance, $30,425 per year for four years as an "relocation allowance," and the opportunity to live in the totally sweet 2.5 acre chancellor mansion.
In light of this, we decided to take a look at just how much he (and all of the other big people) was making at Columbia. Turns out it was around $420,000 (according to 2008 data), so he's getting a pretty nice raise.
But even his new salary doesn't compare to that of President Bollinger's. All data is from 2008.
