Note: If an individual spent a partial year at UC, these data report the partial salary actually paid. (e.g. Mark Yudof 2008 )

Site Notes

Salary data are identical to those from public records requests by the San Francisco Chronicle. The Chronicle described the 2005 data as follows, which probably applies to later data as well:

In addition to salaries, total pay includes overtime, bonuses, housing allowances, relocation allowances, administrative stipends, revenue sharing and more than a dozen other types of cash compensation. It does not include health or retirement benefits.

Results are the actual amounts paid to workers during the year, according to the UC system. Since this data looks back in time -- it has to for overtime to show up -- those who worked only part of the year will see their actual earnings for the year, not how much they will eventually make over 12 months. Gross pay includes overtime, bonuses, housing allowances, sick leave payout, vacation payout and multiple other forms of cash compensation. Some workers promoted toward the end of the year will see their old job titles listed here.

Thank you for the information you supplied on possible errors in the way that earnings were summarized in the Calendar Year 2007 and 2008 UC salary data. We have looked at the program that was used for those years and have learned that earnings for employees with the exact same name at the same location were indeed added together under only one employee name and title. We have modified the program so that this will not occur when we produce the 2009 calendar year data. I appreciate your help in identifying this error and apologize for the inaccurate data that was provided.

- Karla Holmberg, Information Resources and Communications, UC Office of the President You asked whether corrected versions of past systemwide earnings reports will be done. Because the public is most interested in recent earnings for current employees, and the error that you found affected less than 0.5 % of the employees in the report, corrected versions of past reports will not be done.

- Stella Ngai, Director, Public Records and Information, UC Office of the President Some examples of the errors: Fernando Vinuela, 2004-2008: Suddenly in 2007 there is no Fernando Vinuela the medical professor, but there is a Staff Research Associate IV with a medical professor's salary.

Grad students reported with salaries up to $335K

Two of the name Jaime Gonzalez at UCLA, a radiology technologist and a custodian, which became a custodian with a radiology technologist's salary.

The Sacramento Bee explains the numbers further (paraphrased):Unfortunately, some errors do exist, and have been acknowledged by UC:

2007–2010 data represent their respective calendar years. 2006 is actually fiscal year 2005-2006, 2005 is fiscal year 2004-2005, and 2004 is fiscal year 2003-2004. Explanation: These are the reports that UCOP has made freely available.

"Extra Pay" is the amount between base and gross, excluding overtime pay.

Data include employee pay that may not be affected by the proposed furlough plan (e.g. full federal grant).

*The following records have been omitted, in order not to include students and casual employees:

All titles containing any of the following: "gship", "grad stdnt", "student assistant", "student intern", "student resident", "GSR-TUIT", "student nurse" (unless gross pay is over $50,000)

All titles with average gross pay less than $10,000 (except individuals grossing more than $15,000)

All individuals with gross pay under $5,000

(All records are included at the moment, due to database issues.)

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Data available in ZIPped CSV files: 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011