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.