Who Makes What at UCA?
April 14, 2010 by: Ross Atkinson
Ever wonder what that person standing in front of the class is being paid to lecture you? How about the guy who runs this place?
We found the answers in the UCA 2009-10 Budget Book in Torreyson Library. The people in Human Resources tell us it is the most current and reliable source of this information. However, the amounts are budgeted and may not always be the actual amount being paid.
Obviously, President Allen Meadors is the highest-paid person on campus. His annual salary is listed at $252,874. Second behind Meadors is Provost Lance Grahn with an annual salary of $172,000. Other top-paid administrators include Jack Gillean, Meador’s chief of staff, who is listed at $144,637, and Tom Courtway, the general counsel, who is listed at $133,200.
Administrators aren’t the only ones making the big bucks on campus. Randy Pastor, a physician and medical director of the Student Health Clinic, is listed at $150,000.
Clint Conque, the Bears head football coach, is receiving $117,101, substantially more than the other coaches on campus. Former head basketball coach Rand Chappell, who was fired at the end of the season, was making $95,154. Corliss Williamson, who was hired to replace Chappell last month, isn’t included on the list.
Richard Martin, who is head coach for the men and women cross country and track teams, is listed at $76,380. Doug Clark, head baseball coach, is making $59,000 while Ryke Dismuke, head coach for the golf team, is making $49,312. Chad Flanders, head coach of the men’s soccer team, is listed at $49,000.
At UCAPD, Larry James, the chief, is listed at $89,380. Most of the police officers are making about $35,000 but the dispatchers make about $23,000.
The staff members with the lowest pay include janitors, who make between $16,000 and $25,000. Their boss, Tim Decker, the campus maintenance supervisor, makes $35,554.
Administrative assistants also rank near the bottom of the pay scale. Their salaries range from $18,000 to $38,000, except in the president’s office. Meadors’ administrative associate Susan Lilly is making $45,718 and administrative associate Ann Barnett is listed at $38,422.
Want to know more? We have compiled a spreadsheet of about 1,200 names that you can search by name, department or salary. Click here to see it.
Good article, but the link would be much more useful if it were an actual Excel spreadsheet that could be downloaded and viewed. It seems to “time out” too often while browsing through the names.
Also, quite a few of the staff members, professors, and teachers were left out of the document.
But, overall it was interesting.
WHOA!
I think this is pretty thorough. Contingent faculty (part time and year-to-year people) are not listed, and it is possible that some of the regular faculty are missing (although I didn’t notice anyone). If someone is trying to fine info on someone not listed, looking up their rank (listed on the department website) would allow that person to extrapolate an approximate salary based on the department.
Also, the “Export” command on the web-based spread sheet would allow someone to download it and peruse it at their leisure.
Great job, Fountain staff!!!
If they update this annually, maybe they can work out the problems in the current document. It was interesting to see which departments made more than other departments overall – which came as no surprise to me, however.
Can anyone tell me why athletic coaches are being paid more than most of the teachers? That is just pitiful.
This isn’t really investigative. Anyone can go pick up the budget and read what their professors make. Is there really a point to this?
Yes, you can go look it up in the budget book, but can you search a paper list by department, salary, or position? Can you do an easy name search of it? Would you rather go make a copy of all 40 pages of this information from the UCA Budget Book to take home? Because that book is only available for use in the library, you can’t check it out. The point is not to make previously unknown information available, it’s to put it in a form that is easily digestible, search-able, and usable. So yes, I feel that the work I and Katie did on this post has evident value.