Well Paid Public Servants

below is a passage from another website mentioning some high salaries paid by the University of California.
This is definitely the fact that calls for a change of the culture.
$400,000 for Linda Katehi, the Chancellor of UC DAVIS
Almost 2 million each for a football coach and a basketball coach
And are we to be happy because these people have taken 10% pay reductions due to the budget crisis?

So the accusations of greed and corruption have a real foundation.
Public servants should be serving the public for the sake of service, not big pay.
The honor that comes with the position should be more than enough.
And this is a cultural thing. We need to change the culture.
Public service should be about service!










Partly because Katehi was hired at the beginning of the budget crisis, several newspapers reports and some state legislators drew attention to her starting total compensation (salary plus benefits) of $400,000, a [WWW]27% increase over Vanderhoef's compensation ([WWW]WSWS, [WWW]KTVU). [WWW]For comparison, the two highest-paid UC employees are Cal football coach Jeff Tedford and UCLA basketball coach Ben Howland, each of whom has guaranteed compensation of $1,900,000 plus bonuses. Various UC doctors, and several other coaches and athletic directors, had compensation of $500,000 or more in 2008-9. The two highest administrative salaries (as opposed to doctors) at UC Davis are those of Ann Rice ($665,000), the CEO of the medical center, and Claire Pomeroy ($628,000), the vice chancellor of the medical center. Along with other UC's top administrators, Katehi has taken at least a 10% pay reduction in the years following her appointment.