Last year was extremely lucrative for a few University of California employees.
Fourteen UC workers earned more than $1 million during 2010, up from 10 during 2009.
All 35 of the highest-paid state workers in California during 2010 worked for UC. The cutoff to get in that elite group: an annual salary of $800,000-plus.
But before students and parents break out pitchforks and demand a refund, they should know these highly paid employees aren't taking it all from them.
All are either athletic coaches supported by boosters or employees at UC hospitals supported by patient fees.
Still, the data show how fast health care and athletic coach salaries are growing.
UC President Mark Yudof made less than 161 of his employees. His $591,000 gross pay in 2010 was $50,000 less than former UCLA assistant football coach Norm Chow earned for running an offense that ranked 103rd out of 120 top-level college teams.
More broadly, UC's payroll increased about 1 percent from 2009 to 2010, to just under $10 billion.
About 55 percent of UC workers made more during 2010 than during 2009, a Bee analysis of the data found.
All UC salaries for the past three years can be viewed at www.sacbee.com/statepay.
– Phillip Reese
BY THE NUMBERS
California's state and local governments employed more than 2 million full- and part-time workers during March 2010, paying them almost $10 billion a month, the U.S. Census Bureau says. Higher education was by far the state's largest category, followed by prisons. Education accounted for more than half of local employment, followed by law enforcement.
– Dan Walters
WORTH REPEATING
"Sales and income (taxes) could pass under certain circumstances … . That means no significant body to jump up and down and stigmatize it."
GOV. JERRY BROWN, handicapping the chances of voters approving tax increases next year, acknowledging that current polls are generally unfavorable
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