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New UW-Madison chancellor’s pay could top $500,000 a year

UW-Madison?s next chancellor could be the campus? first paid more than half a million dollars per year, if the University of Wisconsin?s Board of Regents approves a salary bump for the position. One faculty and staff representative was concerned that pushing the chancellor?s pay past $500,000 each year ? along with perks like a university car, a generous health and retirement package and living cost-free in Olin House ? could send the wrong message on a campus tightening its belt amid cuts in state funding, increasing tuition and stagnated faculty and staff wages.