Who makes what

The Texas Tribune has updated their database of state employee salaries. Once again, SFA was not included. You will just have to speculate how much less I make that UT football coach Mack Brown’s $5.1 million (Congrats, Mack, on beating Brigham Young by one point last week!).

You can use this database to look up most salaries in the state. Don’t make too much of any one salary. Some of the faculty salaries listed make much more sense if you know about current/former administrative positions. For example, I noticed that the data base does not note who departmental chairs are at UT.

Critics of faculty salaries should note that the most highly paid faculty are those that are in field in which universities are competing with the private sector.  Those faculty members have salaries that occasionally top 5% of Mack Brown’s salary. Most of us range from 1% to 3% of his salary.