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Comment by xiaolingxiao | Hacker News Reader

which college is this, if you don't mind me asking? I mean the dean of HR is making 1million ...

This sounds strikingly similar to what's going on at my school, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. President has a 5mm+ salary and took only a 5% pay cut while laying off (not furloughing!) 60 faculty members.

It's worse than that for Shirley Jackson. as of 2015 her monetary compensation was:

  $945,000 in salary
  $276,474 in bonuses
  $31,874 in nontaxable benefits
  $5.8 million in deferred compensation

plus a 19,500sq.ft. mansion. :|

p.s. hope you enjoy troy :)

Fun read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Ann_Jackson#Rensselaer...

A 2015 Time Magazine article cited Jackson as the highest-paid college president ... for a stunning $7.1 million in total. That works out to more than $1,000 per student at her school".

That's pretty ridiculous considering that RPI's endowment isn't that big, so it's not like she could justify from fundraising.

Bingo.. I wrote the original post, I went to RPI. Dr. Jackson started the spring of my senior year.

BTW for California state employees including the public universities, the information is public so you can actually look it up.

https://transparentcalifornia.com/agencies/salaries/#univers...

Possible Lesson Learned: Skip Leetcode and CTCI, study for the Berkeley Police Department exam!

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2018/berkeley/?&s...

That's actually very valid. I know somebody who works at a crime lab with >100k salary, lives in a cheap area of CA and can retire at 50 with full pension. Pretty sweet gig and if they want more money after retirement they can do some government contracting and consulting which is very well paid.

I think most states publish this information as well, at least for employees making over a certain amount.

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