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May 16, 2002

Four Health Sciences profs, football coach top list of highest paid non-officer employees

Four Health Sciences professors and head football coach Walt Harris were the University's five highest paid, non-officer employees during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2001, according to an IRS form that Pitt filed this week.

The five employees included:

* Ronald B. Herberman, professor of medicine/pathology and Health Sciences associate vice chancellor — $421,482 in salary and $34,852 in Pitt contributions to benefit plans.

* Thomas P. Detre, Distinguished Service Professor — $418,644 in salary, $27,587 in Pitt contributions to benefit plans and $5,287 in expenses and other allowances.

* Walt W. Harris, head football coach — $351,602 in salary, $28,843 in Pitt contributions to benefit plans and $11,658 in expenses and other allowances.

* Savio L. Y. Woo, professor of orthopaedic surgery — $346,732 in salary and $42,610 in Pitt contributions to benefit plans.

* Joyce Yasko, professor and associate director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute — $329,207 in salary and $20,175 in Pitt contributions to benefit plans.

Pitt does not voluntarily release salary and benefits information for employees except senior officers whose pay is set by the Board of Trustees compensation committee.

Compensation information for Herberman, Detre, Harris, Woo and Yasko is available because the IRS Form 990, a public document, requires tax-exempt, private corporations such as Pitt to reveal compensation figures for their five top-earning, non-officer employees, as well as officers.

The Form 990 is limited to salaries, benefits and allowances processed through the Pitt payroll system. It does not include, for example, income that medical faculty earn for clinical work through the UPMC Health System.

In addition to disclosing salary information, the University's IRS Form 990 lists the five independent contractors that received the most money from Pitt during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2001.

Four of the top five were investment advisers, paid to help manage Pitt's endowment:

* Mellon Financial Corp. of Pittsburgh ($860,733);

* TCW Asset Management Co. of Los Angeles ($837,405);

* Capital Guardian Trust Co. of New York City ($770,298), and

* Goldman Sachs Asset Management of New York City ($589,863).

Pitt paid $606,834 to Novell, Inc. of Provo, Utah, for computer consulting.

The University also paid 50 other contractors, not listed in the IRS document, more than $50,000 each for professional services.

— Bruce Steele


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