Million Dollar Job Opportunity: UVA
Thinking about a career switch? Need to earn more money? Want to live in a mansion with a staff?
Have I got an opportunity for you: there’s an opening in the president’s office at the University of Virginia.
Far be it from me to pick on Virginia’s flagship university, but when I took a gander at embattled former UVA President Jim Ryan’s pay and compensation package, I was stunned.
Whatever made me go into journalism, I wondered.
As best I can tell, the university president’s salary is funded mostly by state money and endowments.
I knew UVA’s woke administrators were well-compensated. But who knew the president was raking in about a million bucks a year?
Here’s how it breaks down: Ryan’s base salary was a whopping $912,200 with a $100,000 bonus and deferred compensation. In addition to other benefits, of course.
“Other benefits” include a car allowance (he couldn’t afford a Ford Fiesta without help?) club memberships and a full year’s salary upon leaving office.
Oh, and Ryan now has the option of returning to teach as a tenured professor with a salary that amounts to 75% of his presidential pay.
Outside of a pesky board of visitors made up of Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointees who want the president to actually follow the Department of Education’s decrees on dismantling DEI and other discriminatory policies, this is a dream job.
And it helps explain why the cost of attendance this year for in-state students is $36,680 and a staggering $77,248 for out-of-staters.
UVA may be Virginia’s the most generous public university but other top colleges aren’t far behind. Records show that Virginia Tech’s president is paid $840,546 while William & Mary’s prez is paid only $600,000 with $175,000 in deferred compensation.
The search for Ryan’s replacement is on. Do you know anyone who’s a hard leftist and tolerant of a losing football team and Hamas fanboys?
There’s a million-dollar job opening in Charlottesville.
