Twelve of the system’s 17 campus leaders received raises that averaged 14 percent each, according to information made public Monday by the UNC system. Raises for three of those chancellors came to slightly more than 19 percent.

The dollar amounts of the raises ranged from $17,480 to $70,000 for N.C. State’s Randy Woodson, now the system’s highest-paid chancellor at $590,000 per year.

These raises follow an executive compensation study that the Board of Governors commissioned last fall. The study concluded that UNC chancellors were paid less than their peers in other states, which made it more difficult for the North Carolina system to recruit and retain campus leaders.

In April, the board adopted new, higher salary ranges for chancellors and other senior university officials, including its new system president. Margaret Spellings, who will start work March 1, will be paid $775,000 per year — nearly 30 percent more than outgoing President Tom Ross.

“The Board of Governors believes that strong, exceptionally talented chancellors are vital to the success, quality and vitality of our campuses, yet acknowledges the significant resources required to support these salary adjustments that in turn help assure the … long-term success” of the university system, a UNC system memo released Monday said.

Among Greensboro’s chancellors, N.C. A&T Chancellor Harold Martin’s salary increased by 12.5 percent to $360,000. That was on top of a 3.8 percent raise the board gave Martin in January. The UNC system office did not provide more information about Martin’s raise in January, and an email to A&T Board of Trustees Chairman Bertram Walls was not returned Monday.

New UNCG Chancellor Frank Gilliam got no raise because he started work in September, and his salary was based on the new pay scale. The newly hired chancellors at UNC-Pembroke and UNC-Wilmington also saw no changes to their salaries for that same reason.

One chancellor who didn’t get a raise Friday was Fayetteville State leader James Anderson, the state’s third-longest serving chancellor. The board gave him a raise in January of $85,150 — almost 36 percent.

Both chancellors in Winston-Salem got raises. UNC School of the Arts Chancellor Lindsay Bierman got a 13.7 percent raise to $290,000 per year. At Winston-Salem State, Elwood Robinson was given a 7.7 percent raise to $280,000 per year.

Despite these raises, the first for most chancellors since 2012, the UNC system noted that seven chancellors — including Woodson and UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carol Folt, leaders of the state’s two largest universities — still are paid less than the low end of the revamped salary ranges.

That leaves “serious compensation issues that still need to be addressed,” the UNC system’s memo stated.

Neither the board’s vote nor the new salary ranges apply to faculty members or other university employees. They’re scheduled to receive a one-time bonus in December of $750.

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