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Pres Scholz gave his top admins avg raises of more than 9%. Faculty got 3%.

From the Nov 2023 and Nov 2024 salary reports. The faculty were eligible for a 3% merit pool for Jan 1 2024 raises. I’m no longer an economist, but I seem to remember they call this “revealed preference” as in Scholz has revealed he loves his admins and doesn’t give a shit about the faculty:*

Role Nov 2023 Nov 2024 raise
President $725,000 $747,000 3.03%
Provost $489,250 $561,600 14.79%
CFO $465,000 $501,010 7.74%
CAS Dean $381,100 $408,235 7.12%
COD Dean $278,512 $298,342 7.12%
LCB Dean $427,450 $531,440 24.33%
SOMD Dean $289,224 $300,793 4.00%
SOJC Dean $310,648 $332,766 7.12%
COE Dean $345,000 $369,564 7.12%
VP E&I $319,300 $344,027 7.74%
Sr Vice Prov for Acad Affairs $283,317 $306,800 8.29%
VP Advancement $550,000 $572,000 4.00%
Grad School Dean $214,240 $231,723 8.16%
Vice Provost International $283,317 $303,490 7.12%
VP Student Life $267,800 $321,360 20.00%
CHC Dean $242,907 $270,400 11.32%
Libraries Dean $235,664 $265,200 12.53%
General Counsel $396,279 $424,494 7.12%
VP Research $381,100 $408,235 7.12%
CIO $339,900 $379,701 11.71%
Totals $7,225,008 $7,878,180
Averages $361,250 $393,909 9.37%

* For an interesting application of the theory of revealed preference to altruism see “Giving According to GARP: An Experimental Test of the Consistency of Preferences for Altruism” by Andreoni and Miller (2002), written while Andreoni and Scholz were both profs at UW-Madison and I was a grad student. I helped run the experiment.

11 Comments

  1. Shola Richards 02/03/2025

    Wow. This has got to be devastating for faculty morale. I’d like to offer my services as a motivational speaker to mitigate the damages. Is UO good for $40K an hour like last time?

  2. thedude 02/03/2025

    So if they want to be able to afford similar big raises next year, they need to screw us again?

  3. Sam Schwartz 02/04/2025

    I went through the trouble of expanding this table for multiple years, and adding a few missing positions (e.g., law dean).

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T8Q9pwRyxwvTs62XNdemdqeupFqc_dBI42rS6SWhpHk/edit?usp=sharing

    Median year-over-year executive salary raises for
    2024: 7.1%;
    2023: 0%;
    2022: 7.1%;
    2021: 0%;

    Median 2020-to-2024 executive salary raise: 17.8%.
    Inflation from November 2020 to November 2024: 21.2%
    (https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm)
    November 2024 Median Salary of UO Execs: $338,934.
    November 2024 Median Salary of Oregon Workers: $50,100.
    (https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/oregon-has-one-of-the-lowest-media-salaries-in-the-us-new-data-shows/)
    November 2024 Median Take-Home Salary of UO’s GEs? I’m guessing around ~$2,500/month or lower.

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  4. vhils 02/05/2025

    None of this is surprising to the six people that regularly read this blog. The real question is whether or not the union is going to actually push this damning info out, to name the names, and actually put admin on the defensive on the socials, in the Weekly, the Emerald and, if their comms team is worth a damn, in the Oregonian.

    Abstract graphs might be great for economists but kids want a good meme. The face and salary of Moffitt should serve that purpose well.

    • How many people read this blog? 02/05/2025

      Bill, how many people read this blog? Do you have analytics set up? What’s a typical number of page views?

      • uomatters Post author | 02/06/2025

        4,607 visitors and 20,173 views over the past 30 days.

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  5. Lurker 02/06/2025

    The report captures the Jan 1st 2024 merit increases for OA and the October 1st 2024 ATB, 3% and 4% respectively which puts them at a little north of 7% for the time period. Faculty haven’t gotten their FY25 amounts yet, which I imagine will be retro or contain some component to make them “whole” for the year similar to the $1,500 amounts for SEIU last year.

    Also there’s some nuanced things in the data as there were some interim positions filled permanently, which usually have higher salaries than interims.

    Curious to see if the problem is better or worse with more accurate and contextualized information.

  6. ODA 02/06/2025

    I came here to say “9.5% ATB for faculty NOW!”

    But after looking at Sam’s data above, now I am thinking (after vetting the numbers):

    20% ATB for all faculty NOW!

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  7. caufee 02/07/2025

    I wish the union info push was as informative and motivating as this page is.

  8. charlie 02/09/2025

    Not that anyone at JH pays any attention, but for damn near nine years, DJT said he’s gettin rid of DOE. That, despite DNC hacks a few days ago clownin the public with their display of outrage as DOE gets DOGED. In fact, according to Elon, the DOE no longer exists.

    DJT also said why he loathed the DOE, that being, the massive uni administrative bloat financed by taxpayer subsidized student loans. He pledged to get rid of the mechanism that created nearly $1.8 trillion in student loan debt, and it would be the state’s responsibility to fund their public unis.

    University loan mill chop shops, including UOwe, cannot exist as presently configured without Fed loan underwriting. If admins had spent less time pilfering UOwe’s treasury, and focused on positioning the flagship for the inevitable cessation of Fed magic money, they woulda created a financially stable business model. They didn’t, and the collapse is unavoidable. Just look to the CSUs for UOwe’s future…

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