President Scholz gave the Moffitts big raises, why not regular faculty?

What’s happened to salaries since President Scholz took charge in July 2023 and the Nov 2024 salary data that was just posted (late of course) at https://ir.uoregon.edu/employees/salary-reports ?

In Jan 2023 faculty had just got a 2% across-the-board raise, and were eligible for a 3% merit pool in Jan 2024. Let’s compound and include an allowance for promotion raises and round it up to 7%.

Of course things were a little different for the friends of President Scholz. Here are the Nov 2022 and Nov 2024 salaries for Jamie and Michael Moffitt:

Jamie Moffit got a 15% raise to $501,010, her husband got 12% to $317,520, plus a $25K Knight chair. He’s listed as Law faculty but from what I can tell really teaches undergrads in the Honors College with no research expectations.

This was on top of 8% and 7% raises the previous year when regular faculty got 5%. And of course Jamie Moffit has a second job at Summit Bank – thanks to UO Foundation President Paul Weinhold, who’s their Chairman of the Board on the side. No info on what he pays her, it’s not a public corporation.

Feel free to dig through the UO salary reports to find other examples of President Scholz’s generosity. Pro tip: search for “EEO CATEGORY Senior Administrators”