Study: 17 Rutgers Employees Make More Than $1M
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) - A new study of salaries at Rutgers University finds that 17 employees, including 14 doctors and three athletic coaches, have salaries over $1 million per year.
The Home News Tribune also finds that half of the university's nearly 25,000 employees were paid less than $50,000 in 2014.
The lower paid workers include non-faculty support staff as well as part-time lecturers and other adjunct faculty.
The median salary for tenured faculty was just over $120,000.
The top salary at the university went to Robert Heary, a surgeon at the university's teaching hospital in Newark who earned $3.1 million.
University officials say much of doctors' pay comes from insurance, not taxpayers.
Rutgers president Robert Barchi was paid $650,000.
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