Though concerns have persisted over compensation at HMC—where managers can net millions of dollars—top officers at the University itself earn modest salaries in comparison with administrators at peer institutions like Columbia and Yale, and have avoided similar criticism.
During the fiscal year ending in 2008, University President Drew G. Faust took home $693,739—a salary that makes Faust the 56th highest paid university president in the country.
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“Of all the lists we top, I’m glad Harvard is not number one on this list,” former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 quipped to The Crimson when that news broke last fall.
—Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu.