MADISON – A University of Wisconsin-Madison administrator collected $125,000 in salary during nearly eight months of paid leave after he stepped down and his position was eliminated, university officials acknowledge in court records.
The university could have saved $77,000 of that salary had Chancellor John Wiley demoted Paul Barrows into a lower-paying backup job after he forced him to resign as vice chancellor, UW-Madison human resources official Stephen Lund said in an affidavit.