Chronicle releases compensation data for public universities

UNIVERSITY OF Rhode Island President David M. Dooley made $330,000 in total compensation in 2014, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
UNIVERSITY OF Rhode Island President David M. Dooley made $330,000 in total compensation in 2014, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island President David M. Dooley made $330,000 in total compensation in 2014, ranking 61st among 238 chief executives at 220 public universities surveyed by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

In comparison, Robert L. Caret, outgoing president of the University of Massachusetts system, made $666,933, and was the only president of a public New England college to make the top 20 in terms of total compensation, coming in at No. 19.
Total compensation includes base pay, bonus, deferred compensation paid out and severance, according to the Chronicle.
E. Thomas Sullivan, president of the University of Vermont, made $459,093, while Mark Huddleston, president of the University of New Hampshire, made $479,710, and Susan Herbst, president of the University of Connecticut, made $575,000. University of Maine’s Paul Ferguson, who left in May 2014, made $250,000.
The highest paid president at a public university was Rodney A. Erickson, of Pennsylvania State University at University Park, with $1,494,603.
R. Bowen Loftin, president of Texas A&M University at College Station, was the only other president of a public university who made more than $1 million in 2014. His total compensation was $1,128,957, and represents only a partial year compensation, according to the Chronicle.

The Chronicle said that in 2014, the median presidential pay for public colleges was 50 times the median state tuition, ranging from 112.2 times tuition at the University of South Florida’s main campus to 16.2 times tuition at Florida State University. That figure was 26.5 for URI.

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