{"id":302375,"date":"2010-02-10T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.71400"},"modified":"2010-02-09T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:57:22","slug":"top-state-employee-salaries-13-uconn-and-uconn-health-center-employees-earned-more-than-500000-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/302375","title":{"rendered":"Top State Employee Salaries: 13 UConn and UConn Health Center Employees Earned More Than $500,000 In 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

As University of Connecticut students protest a proposed tuition increase of 6.3 percent, a new survey of public records shows that the highest-paid state employees work at UConn.<\/p>\n

The information, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, shows that basketball coach Jim Calhoun was paid $1.58 million, while football head coach Randy Edsall was paid $1.36 million in 2008. The women’s basketball coach, Geno Auriemma, received $1,050,000.<\/p>\n

Overall, 13 UConn employees – including eight at the UConn Health Center in Farmington – were paid more than $500,000. The university president, Michael J. Hogan, received $616,000 in state funds that year.<\/p>\n

The information was compiled from public records at the office of State Comptroller Nancy Wyman by the Yankee Institute For Public Policy, a right-leaning research group with offices on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford.<\/p>\n

Fergus Cullen, the executive director at the Yankee Institute, said it took six months to create a web site and make the information searchable. The web site is www.CTSunlight.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cullen’s group worked closely with the comptroller’s office on the large project that covers the salary of every state employee.<\/p>\n

“They were very helpful, very cooperative,” Cullen said of Wyman’s office. “It was a cooperative and collaborative approach.”<\/p>\n

Overall, 71 state employees were paid more than $300,000 per year, and more than 1,100 are paid more than the governor’s annual salary of $150,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As University of Connecticut students protest a proposed tuition increase of 6.3 percent, a new survey of public records shows that the highest-paid state employees work at UConn. The information, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, shows that basketball coach Jim Calhoun was paid $1.58 million, while football head coach Randy Edsall was paid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}