{"id":485,"date":"2006-08-21T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/19-of-the-20-highest-paid-public-employees-in-the-county-work-for-nmsu\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T22:03:00","slug":"19-of-the-20-highest-paid-public-employees-in-the-county-work-for-nmsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/19-of-the-20-highest-paid-public-employees-in-the-county-work-for-nmsu\/","title":{"rendered":"19 of the 20 highest-paid public employees in the county work for NMSU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the top 20 salaries at New Mexico State University<\/a>. With the exception of Las Cruces Public Schools<\/a> Superintendent Sonia Diaz, the 20 highest-paid public employees in Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> Ana<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> all work for NMSU. Diaz is currently paid an annual salary of $160,000. <\/p>\n

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Here are the top 20 salaries at NMSU for the 2006-2007 fiscal year (which began July 1), based on information the university provided in response to a records request:<\/p>\n

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1 \u2013 Michael Martin, university president: $293,840.98<\/p>\n

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2 \u2013 Reggie Theus, men\u2019s basketball head coach: $275,000<\/p>\n

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3 \u2013 William Flores, executive vice president and provost: $220,913.78<\/p>\n

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4 \u2013 Hal Mumme, head football coach: $207,923.66<\/p>\n

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5 \u2013 McKinley Boston, athletics director: $190,000<\/p>\n

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6 \u2013 Vimal Chaitanya, vice president for research, graduate studies and international programs: $177,000<\/p>\n

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7 \u2013 Jennifer Taylor, senior vice president for business, finance and human resources: $175,000<\/p>\n

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8 \u2013 Ben Woods, senior vice president for planning, physical resources and university relations: $166,171.43<\/p>\n

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9 \u2013 Stephen Hottman, senior director for technology, Physical Science Laboratory: $165,080.20<\/p>\n

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10 \u2013 Michael Hites, chief information officer, information and technology services: $163,174.93<\/p>\n

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11 \u2013 Waded Cruzado-Salas, dean, College of Arts and Sciences: $161,525.12<\/p>\n

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12 \u2013 Robert Moulton, dean, College<\/st1:placetype> of Education<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>: $158,068.13<\/p>\n

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13 \u2013 Garrey E. Carruthers, College<\/st1:placetype> of Business Administration<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> and Economics dean and vice president for economic development: $155,000<\/p>\n

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14 \u2013 Steven Castillo, dean, College<\/st1:placetype> of Engineering<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>: $153,166.78<\/p>\n

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15 \u2013 Lowell Catlett, dean, College of Agriculture and Home Economics: $151,708.92<\/p>\n

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16 \u2013 Jeffrey Brandon, dean, College of Health and Social Services: $151,525.01<\/p>\n

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17 \u2013 Robert Widenhofer, assistant football coach: $149,873.90<\/p>\n

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18 \u2013 Thomas Burton, mechanical engineering department head: $146,300<\/p>\n

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19 \u2013 Jay Jordan, dean and director of the Physical Science Laboratory: $145,600<\/p>\n

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20 \u2013 Abbas Ghassemi, WERC executive director: $145,440.75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the top 20 salaries at New Mexico State University. With the exception of Las Cruces Public Schools Superintendent Sonia Diaz, the 20 highest-paid public employees in Do\u00f1a Ana County all work for NMSU. Diaz is currently paid an annual salary of $160,000. Here are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}