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

Last updated on 02/03/2025

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% over two years.

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” or “EEO CATEGORY Executive Admins”.