These figures reflect the non-classified 2008-2009 annual salaries of University employees as of July 1, 2008. Note that employee salary is not necessarily the same as employee pay; the latter can be affected by other factors like bonuses.
The sum of the salaries equals $219,217,241. Divided among 3,286 employees, this equals an average salary of $66,712.49. The median salary is $58,000.
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If you are unable to find a specific University employee on the database, please leave a comment and let us know. Keep in mind these figures are current as of July 1, 2008.
As of Oct. 27, 2008, the salaries of Daily Reveille managment are posted on the salary database. These salaries are accurate for the fall 2008 semester only. Because these are student worker salaries, and also because they are scheduled on a per-semester basis, they are not included in the salary sum or in the calculations of the average and median salaries.
LSU Salary Database
Published: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Updated: Sunday, October 26, 2008
172 comments
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The rest of his salary is supplemented by TAF. Universities across the country do this. They are still public employees receiving a state salary and are supplemented by private athletic foundations. Not hard to understand and not dumb down
CS
Les Miles makes $3 or $4 MILLION annually. It's public information, I wonder why they tried to dumb it down on this spread sheet.
09 alum
I bet that if Charles Roussel's salary was actually posted on this site, we would all realize he was getting paid WAY to much. If only professors were paid based on how good they were as a teacher then we would all finally get our money's worth. As an student I had several teachers that i learned absoluetly nothing from, and I put a lot of time into my education.
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IMHO, when the median is greater than the average (as shown now), there is too much high end salary. Also, it would be nice to be able to see a designation of salaried, sex (M/F), classified and unclassified salaries. This would allow figuring the percentage of the latest cuts each group is providing and M/F amount comparison; something I think might be interesting.
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No no no Les Miles does make millions as do many of the people on this list make more than their base salaries e.g. science professors being paid out of grant money etc. It's all in the classification of the money they make.
lakecharleskplctv
i thought les miles made millions...wow..i saw an assistant coach made more than he did..the assistant made 400 K where Miles only made 300 K
HeineMilla
Huh, I would have thought Les Miles made more than that...
Student
What about Charles Rousell, economics instructor?
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Seeing the football guys' salary and comparing it to professors' salary convinces me that I am in just some giant football club that happens to just hand out degrees from time to time.
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Dr. Luigi Romolo.
Aaron
This is great. I've seen lots of city employee salary databases on other newspaper Web sites. I don't care too much about those (don't know many city employees) but I tore through this.
JC's a tool
Hey WastedSemester, do you mean Jon Cogburn not Coburn?? B/c if so I totally agree!!
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Where are the System personnel salaries?
WastedSemester
Glad to know that Coburn in philosophy is getting paid 60 large to show youtube clips in class 2 days a week.
Student
Louisiana tax dollars pay for this. The tax payers are entitled to know where there money goes, LSU isn't the CIA.
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Public information
Curious
Where are all the articles that the Editor said would be published as a result of this database? You know, the ones about salary inequalities across race/age/gender lines? Or was his promise simply an attempt to placate disgruntled professors who did not want their salary information posted?
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Lidia Byrd, Spanish teacher what does she make
Nameless
Man, is this legal to post someone else's salaries on internet publicly?
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So, 'Your Name' ... are you going to name that waste-of-space professor ... or just let us guess? If you don't name them, then your post is just fictional.
