CUNY Chancellor Salary Watch

1957 – $25,000 [year created]
1990 – $140,000
1994 – $158,000
1998 – $178,000
1999 – $250,000
2003 – $350,000
2006 – $395,000
2008 – $450,000
2009 – $490,000

The Chancellor’s position is also handsomely compensated with many non-salary perks: a $90,000 a year allowance for housing costs plus a car and driver, for total compensation that approaches half a million dollars.

It is imperative that the struggle for a free and open CUNY end such outlandish pay packages and force the Chancellor and his trustees to swallow their own medication and submit to ’salary austerity.’