THE four heads of Liverpool’s major universities and colleges earn more than £750,000 between them, new figures reveal.
They show that in 2007/08, vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool Professor Drummond Bone earned up to £285,000 and received an 18.2% pay rise between 2006 and last year.
He has since left the university to be replaced by Sir Howard Newby, who has caused outrage among students and politicians with plans to close the university’s politics department in order that the institution can focus on better performing departments, which bring in more in research funding.
Professor Michael Brown, at Liverpool JMU, is one of the country’s highest earners, with a salary of £236,000.
Hope University vice chancellor Professor Gerald Pillay received £151,514, while LIPA’s Mark Featherstone-Witty earned £102,457.
The figures also show the average pension contribution for a university vice-chancellor was £26,129, with average increases of around 16% annually.
