The University of Massachusetts dominated the list of state employees who made more than $100,000 last year, with 49 of the top 50 spots held by doctors, administrators, and coaches.
At $784,468, the top 2012 salary belonged to Michael F. Collins, who holds dual roles in the university, as chancellor of the medical school and senior vice president for health sciences at the university. He was also the state’s highest paid employee in 2011.
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The fact that athletic coaches make this much is crazy. A doctor who runs a medical school-- this saves lives, I get it. But coaches?
There's no news here. The results are basically the same as the last time.
Except for the additional 800 people making over $100K from the previous year and lets not forget the fat, tax free pensions.
I hope that's true about $900 million in private income. Also, I've heard and read that basketball brings in big money, too. Hence the high coach salary.
$400K is nothing for a D1 football coach. Maybe this news will give the useless UMass faculty senate something to complain about other than the horror that the school has a D1 football program. I don't have a problem with paying the going rate for coaches and for very talented people, like the medical staff, when they generate offsetting revenue. I do have a problem with the layers and layers of lard that must be on this list of $150K per year, with unheard of benefits, useless administrators. Most of them I guarantee have a relative who is or used to be a state rep!
this is insane. like the ceos from the auto industry asking for taxpayer bailouts while they make millions and arrvie in private jets. no reason a non profit, that pays no taxes really, should pay its admin staff and coaches in the millions-more than our governor or us president...really greed run amok and needs to be fixed asap. our kids take out huge loans they can never pay back to fund these salaries to go to these schools. the loans cant be defaulted. its a rigged game. llike wall street. same basic evil principles. the going rate is nonsense . thats what wall st said as well. still nonsense.
If the highly paid coaches are running profitable programs then let's see the details of those profits because I don't believe it.
unless you have the context of the relevant labor market salaries, the financial benefits to UMass, etc, you cant make much of this article that approaches an accurate story. reading this story you learn how little the story actually tells you since references are made to non-state sources of income over $120,000 as well as the gross revenues generated for the supervision provided, for example, by the head of UMass Medical School.
for a sloppy reader, you would easily slip into the Tea Party view of governments and corruption and the oppressed middle class taxpayer and that is my biggest problem with this Boston Herald type of journalism. One might think we live in some semifeudal society with overlords who insist on rubbing our noses in our humiliating exploitation by them. better writing, better editing and a little less sensational overtones would help. Massachusetts, by the way, has done much better than other states during the recent economic troubles ...
You mean there are Massachusetts state employees who actually make less than $100,000 a year? Oh, that's right! The toll collectors. They only make $75,000 a year.
Is there a reason why the State Police are the highest paid cops in the State? Is there a reason they kept their full Quinn Bill while the cities and towns were cut in half? The don't answer priority 1 calls. The don't answer domestics. The state is so backwards.