Salary Brouhaha in University of California System

This morning's Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a brouhaha over allegations of excessive and hidden pay in the University of California system sparked by a series of articles in the San Francisco Chronicle:

• UC sets aside extra cash for top execs who leave
• List of execs who got severance
• President gets power to boost salaries
• Big changes sought in how UC raises pay
• Details given on extra pay
• Legislative hearing into UC compensation
• Ex-provost still on payroll
• Freedberg: Lessons not learned at UC
• Outrage in Capitol at pay revelations
• Editorial: UC's hidden pay
• UC refuses to release exec raise list
• Student services cut as high-pay jobs boom
• Free mansions for people of means
• UC piling extra cash on top of pay
• Other perks include gifts, travel, parties

The University of California system has established a web site in response to the San Francisco Chronicle's charges.

For voyeurs like me, the most interesting aspect of this episode is the web site set up by the newspaper which allows you to search for the salary and benefits of individual professors in the University of California system, including law professors.

Update:  Steve Bainbridge (UCLA) has more here, along with a link to the list (and salaries) of the 21 law profs among the 2277 highest paud members of the University of California system.