Four UW System chancellors may receive pay increases, pending the outcome of a UW System Board of Regents meeting Oct. 3 at UW-Stevens Point.
The review is part of a periodic assessment of individual senior leader's salaries relative to peer institutions' salaries for leaders of similar caliber.
According to the regents' meeting agenda, Wisconsin statutes allow the board to increase employees' salaries to make them more competitive in comparison to other universities.
The chancellors in line for pay raises are UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago, UW Colleges and UW Extension Chancellor David Wilson, UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Linda Bunnell and UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich.
The salary increases would range from about 3.5 to 5 percent.
Where they are now is consistently toward the bottom, and where they will be with these adjustments is still usually, in most cases, at or near the middle,"" UW System spokesperson David Giroux said.
This review comes just months after three chancellors left the UW System for better-paying jobs. According to Giroux, salary adjustments are done on a rotating basis to ensure UW salaries remain competitive.
""We know in Wisconsin that none of our salaries, none - faculty, staff, chancellors - are ever going to be the highest salaries around. What we'd like them to be is somewhere close to the middle,"" Giroux said.
