CSUS president due for $10,000 raise

Sacramento Bee 1/24/07

By Eric Stern

Alexander Gonzalez, president of California State University, Sacramento, is getting a $10,000 raise.

CSU's governing board is expected today to approve a 4 percent across-the-board raise for campus presidents and systemwide administrators, part of an effort to make top-level salaries more competitive.

Gonzalez's salary will increase to $265,000, retroactive to July 1, 2006. It is the second executive pay raise to be authorized by the CSU Board of Trustees since 2005, when Gonzalez's salary increased by $34,000, along with an expanded housing and automobile stipend.

The Legislature gave CSU extra money this year for pay raises across the 23-campus system, but faculty wages have been frozen by contract negotiations. CSUS professors are planning to picket at lunchtime Monday.