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May 29, 2008

Dixon tops Pitt highest-paid list

Head men’s basketball coach James P. Dixon II topped the list of Pitt’s five highest-paid non-officer employees during the 2006-07 fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2007.

Compensation figures for those five employees appeared on Internal Revenue Service forms filed May 15 by Pitt. Form 990 requires tax-exempt, private corporations to reveal compensation figures for their five top-earning, non-officer employees.

(For information on UPMC’s IRS 990 filing, see related story this issue.)

Dixon earned $1,296,482 in salary, $39,690 in employer contributions to benefits plans (a category that includes deferred compensation where applicable) and $13,227 in expense account and other allowances in FY 2007

Rounding out the top five were:

• Dave R. Wannstedt, head football coach — $823,733 in salary, $29,396 in employer contributions to benefits plans and $18,526 in expense account and other allowances.

• Ronald B. Herberman, professor of medicine and associate vice chancellor for cancer research, Health Sciences —$575,001 in salary and $77,398 in employer contributions to benefits plans.

• Donald S. Burke, associate vice chancellor for global health and dean of the Graduate School of Public Health — $400,001 in salary and $37,683 in employer contributions to benefits plans.

• Alan J. Russell, University Professor of Surgery and director of Pitt’s McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine — $385,919 in salary and $50,975 in employer contributions to benefits plans.

According to IRS form 990, Pitt also paid 4,938 unspecified employees more than $50,000 last year.

Pitt’s IRS form also includes financial information on the chancellor and six other senior administrators for fiscal year 2007. In FY07, Nordenberg earned a salary of $442,500, as reported in this year’s form 990.

The compensation committee of Pitt’s Board of Trustees announced the compensation packages of the seven senior officers for fiscal year 2008 last December, retroactive to July 1, 2007.

Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg currently receives $460,000 in salary.

Information on the chancellor’s and officers’ current salaries and executive benefits was published in the Dec. 6, 2007, issue of the University Times. Those figures are available online at http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db=ustory&-lay=a&-format=d.html&storyid=7856&-Find.

Additionally, Pitt reported fiscal year 2007 information for trustee Emil M. Spadafore Jr., who received $4,812 in compensation and $8,270 in benefits for services as a part-time faculty member on the Pitt-Titusville campus. (Pitt trustees are not compensated for service on the board.)

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 as well as the five highest-paid independent contractors providing other services during the 2006-07 fiscal year.

Pitt contracted with the following five firms for professional services:

• MacLachlan Cornelius and Filoni of Pittsburgh for architectural services, $1,325,793.

• Plus Consulting LLC of Bridgeville for computer consulting services, $1,243,878.

• Capital Guardian Trust Co. of Brea, Calif., for endowed funds investment management services, $1,093,609.

• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC of Pittsburgh for legal counsel, $1,007,508.

• Edge Studio of Pittsburgh for architectural services, $976,957.

Pitt also paid 119 other unspecified contractors more than $50,000 each for professional services, according to information provided to the IRS.

Pitt contracted with the following five firms for other services:

• Sodexho and Sodexho Campus Services of Bowling Green, Ky., for food services, $19,239,161.

• Tedco Construction Corp. of Carnegie for construction management services, $14,134,651.

• PJ Dick of Pittsburgh for construction management services, $11,294,554.

• Scalise Industries of Lawrence, Pa., for electrical and mechanical services, $8,751,785.

• Mascaro Construction Co. of Pittsburgh for construction management services, $7,534,218.

In addition, Pitt paid 969 other unspecified such contractors more than $50,000 each, according to the IRS documents.

—Peter Hart


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