Salary News Snippets

A new study reveals that female professors at the University of Texas at Austin are paid $9,000 less annually, on average, than their male peers, the Associated Press reports.
Do you want to earn a higher salary? Then consider moving overseas. According to an article on The Chronicle’s Web site today, a new report shows that …

Starting salaries for newly minted professors are highest in Canada, but for the best prospects for raising earnings over an academic career, look to Saudi Arabian universities.

According to a New York Post article, Matthew Goldstein, chancellor of the City University of New York, got a substantial pay raise last month, even though the university is expecting budget cuts and tuition hikes.
University of Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz was the highest-paid state employee in Iowa during the 2008 fiscal year, earning a base salary of $2.9-million, The Des Moines Register reports. That’s way more than the state’s three public university presidents make. In fact, Ferentz’s monthly paycheck of $240,000 is nearly double Iowa Gov. Chet Culver’s $130,000 annual salary and about seven times the $35,500 salary the average Iowan takes home every year, according to Iowa Workforce Development, the newspaper reports.