“UC piling extra cash on top of pay / 8,500 top staffers pulling down at least $20,000 each in bonuses” and other links…
Tanya Schevitz and Todd Wallack: “Despite UC’s complaints that it has been squeezed by cuts in state funding and forced to raise student fees, many university faculty members and administrators get paid far more than is publicly reported. …In addition to salaries and overtime, payroll records obtained by The Chronicle show that 105,482 employees shared $871 million in bonuses, administrative stipends, relocation packages and other forms of cash compensation last year. That was more than enough to cover the 79 percent hike in student fees that UC has imposed over the past few years.” Yes, I’m outraged…
“State Salary Database”
wikifoia.pbworks.com: “Various newspapers across the country have assembled databases of how much state employees earn. There are also a (small) number of states that provide access to payroll databases online. …The Los Angeles Daily News also posted this Los Angeles Unified School District Salaries database. The Sacramento Bee provides this Search for a state worker’s salary database for 2007/2008. University of California salaries.”
The Sacramento Bee search application is not working properly! No matter what I submit I get back about 400,000 records!
“Staying motivated when you can’t move”
Tiffany B. Brown: “In her book The How of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky explains the psychological phenomenon of hedonic adaptation. Simply put, it’s the tendency for people to adapt to their current situation, and return to their base level of happiness after a life-altering event. Lyubomirsky cited a German study of newlyweds that showed the happiness boost of marriage wore off after about two years.” People should be judged in statistical averages (assuming you are going to do such an unfashionable thing as be judgmental) instead of by a single dramatic event. This faith in drama comes from the many ironic atheists (secular self-centered humanists).