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May 25, 2006

Pitt’s highest paid: Dixon tops salary list

Head men’s basketball coach James P. Dixon II topped the list of Pitt’s five highest paid non-officer employees during the 2004-05 fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2005.

Dixon earned $573,004 in salary compensation, $32,992 in employer contributions to benefits plans and $19,948 in expense account and other allowances (a category that includes deferred compensation where applicable) in FY 2004-05.

Rounding out the top five were:

• Ronald B. Herberman, professor of medicine and associate vice chancellor for cancer research, Health Sciences — $526,555 in salary and $69,082 in employer contributions to benefits plans.

• Walt William Harris, former head football coach who left the University in January 2005 — $448,090 in salary, $8,200 in employer contributions to benefits plans and $14,271 in expense account and other allowances.

• Massimo M. Trucco, professor of pediatric medicine — $364,625 in salary and $41,282 in employer contributions to benefits plans.

• Alan J. Russell, professor of medicine and director of Pitt’s McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine — $352,983 in salary and $47,242 in employer contributions to benefits plans.

Compensation figures for those five employees appeared on Internal Revenue Service forms filed this month by Pitt. According to IRS form 990, Pitt also paid 4,507 unspecified employees more than $50,000 last year.

Form 990 requires tax-exempt, private corporations to reveal compensation figures for their five top-earning, non-officer employees.

The IRS form also includes last year’s information on the chancellor and six other officers. Information on the chancellor’s and officers’ current salaries (and executive benefits) was published in the Dec. 8, 2005, issue of the University Times.

Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg currently receives $427,500 in salary. In fiscal year 2005, Nordenberg earned a salary of $415,000.

The University releases salary and benefits figures for the senior administration following action by the Board of Trustees compensation committee, which annually sets the officers’ salaries, bonuses and special benefits.

Those figures, which cover the current fiscal year that began July 1, 2005, are available at: www.umc.pitt.edu:591/u/FMPro?-db=ustory&-lay=a&-format=d.html&storyid=4190&-Find.

Pitt also is required by the IRS to file compensation figures for the five independent contractors that received the most money from the University during the 2004-05 fiscal year.

Those firms were:

• Architects Payette Associates Inc. of Boston ($1,894,732).

• Computer consultants Cornelius and Associates of Columbia, S.C. ($1,315,475)

• Consultants Hornby Zeller Associates Inc. of Troy, N.Y. ($1,288,166).

• Computer consultants Oracle USA ($1,140,760).

• Architects Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates of Pittsburgh ($901,967).

The University also paid 106 other unspecified contractors more than $50,000 each for professional services, according to information provided to the IRS.

(UPMC also must file IRS 990 forms. See related story this issue.)

—Peter Hart


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