University Times

Head football coach Dave R. Wannstedt topped the list of Pitt’s five highest paid non-officer employees during the 2005-06 fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2006.

Wannstedt earned $675,002 in salary, $28,959 in employer contributions to benefits plans (a category that includes deferred compensation where applicable) and $9,177 in expense account and other allowances in FY 2005-06.

Rounding out the top five were:

• James P. Dixon II, head men’s basketball coach — $622,753 in salary, $38,276 in employer contributions to benefits plans and $15,683 in expense account and other allowances.

• Ronald B. Herberman, professor of medicine and associate vice chancellor for cancer research, Health Sciences — $557,164 in salary and $74,422 in employer contributions to benefits plans.

• Alan J. Russell, professor of medicine and director of Pitt’s McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine — $367,885 in salary and $49,065 in employer contributions to benefits plans.

• Thomas Braun, dean of the School of Dental Medicine and professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery — $357,001 in salary, $50,662 in employer contributions to benefits plans and $240 in expense account and other allowances.

Compensation figures for those five employees appeared on Internal Revenue Service forms filed this week by Pitt. According to IRS form 990, Pitt also paid 4,948 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 senior administrators.

Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg currently receives $442,500 in salary. In fiscal year 2006, Nordenberg earned a salary of $427,501, as reported in this year’s form 990.

Information on the chancellor’s and officers’ current salaries (and executive benefits) was published in the Dec. 7, 2006, issue of the University Times.

Those figures, which cover the current fiscal year that began July 1, 2006, are available at: http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db=ustory&-lay=a&-format=d.html&storyid=7321&-Find.

Pitt also is required by the IRS to file compensation figures for the five independent contractors providing professional services that received the most money from the University during the 2005-06 fiscal year.

Those firms were:

• Architects Payette Associates Inc. of Boston ($1,235,973).

• Computer consultants Oracle USA of Palatine, Ill. ($873,952).

• Investment advisers Adage Management, LLC, of Boston ($813,388).

• Computer consultants Cornelius & Associates of Columbia, S.C. ($795,250).

• Perkins Eastman Architects of New York, N.Y. ($772,522).

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

New this year in the IRS requirements is that tax-exempt, private corporations such as Pitt must report the five “independent contractors for other than professional services, whether individuals or firms, receiving over $50,000.”

Those contractors are:

• P.J. Dick Inc. of Pittsburgh, for construction services ($26,644,788).

• Sodexho Campus Services of Charlotte, N.C., for student food services ($18,249,358).

• Mascaro Hunt of Pittsburgh, for construction services ($14,821,240).

• Tedco Construction Corp. of Carnegie for construction services ($8,991,530).

• Carnegie Mellon University for research subcontracting services ($6,483,363).

In addition, the University paid 1,068 other unspecified such contractors more than $50,000 each, according to the IRS documents.

(UPMC also must file IRS 990 forms. The UPMC Health Sciences News Bureau did not respond to repeated requests for form 990 information.)

—Peter Hart