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On the same July day that the UC Board of Regents cut $813 million from UC budgets - setting in motion pay cuts, layoffs and campus cutbacks - the board quietly approved pay raises, stipends and other benefits for more than two dozen executives.
<p>French said they are all filling in for Chief Operating Officer Tomi Ryba, who left in January and was not replaced, hence the savings. She earned $547,600.</p>
<p>But critics - from janitors to physicians, whose salaries have all been slashed - said that people earning between a quarter million and half a million dollars can afford to take on new duties without extra pay. After all, they said, they themselves are now paid less money for more work.</p>
<p>“These are outrageous actions, taken at the same time as UC has been pleading poverty, giving layoff notices, forcing staff and faculty to take furloughs and hinting at more student fee increases,” said library assistant Kathy Renfro, chairwoman of the UC Berkeley Labor Coalition.</p>
<p>At UCSF, the three employees in question are getting yearly stipends - periodic payments above their salaries that are meant to compensate them for additional duties.</p>
<p>UCSF’s chief financial officer, now the interim chief operating officer, is getting a yearly 6.5 percent stipend, boosting his salary this year to $500,763.
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<p>Those are some not too shabby salaries some of the execs are getting. I guess the UCSF CFO just wasn’t able to pay the rent with the former salary of $470K or so.</p>
<p>Yep. Although Yudoff called for shared sacrifice, I understand that exceptions to the salary reductions can be requested…which the UC Pres will personally review. Oh well…</p>