Ohio State University Pays 154 Employees More Than $250,000 a Year
COLUMBUS - The Buckeye Institute's Center for Transparent and Accountable Government today released an online database of Ohio State University employees earning more than $250,000 a year. The database can be searched in its entirety or viewed in four segments - administrative staff, sports staff, professors and medical staff. It is available here.
"Ohio State's hiring of outgoing Democrat State Rep. Joyce Beatty to a loosely defined post reportedly earning $320,000 a year piqued our interest," Buckeye Institute President David Hansen said. "We discovered this type of salary, while on the extreme high end in academia, is commonplace at Ohio State."
"Ohio State pays 154 employees at least $250,000 a year, with university president E. Gordon Gee topping the list at $775,000 a year," transparency center director Mike Maurer said. Mr. Gee's total annual pay package, between $1.6 million to $2 million, makes him the highest paid public university president in the nation, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Columbus Dispatch.
"Our goal is to increase taxpayer awareness of public expenditures, including salaries," Maurer added. "Taxpayers want a complete picture of government funding and expenditures. The Buckeye Institute will collect and provide it online in an easily accessible format."
In addition to OSU salaries, the Institute has compiled salary information for school administrators, teachers and state public employees. Those databases will be available once internal testing is completed.
The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions is a nonpartisan research and educational institute devoted to individual liberty, economic freedom, personal responsibility and limited government in Ohio.
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