College of Tennessee Chancellor Donde Plowman gets 24% elevate

University of Tennessee at Knoxville Chancellor Donde Plowman will get a $160,000 elevate following propelling the university to come to be the speediest-increasing in the Southeastern Convention. 

Her salary will maximize by about 24%, from $660,000 to $820,000, starting July 1. UT Technique President Randy Boyd declared the increase Friday through the UT Board of Trustees Executive Conference.

“In my belief, our chancellor is one particular of the finest in the region, if not the best in the state,” Boyd mentioned. “She’s doing an remarkable task.”

Boyd credited UT’s fast enrollment expansion — up 12% around the earlier five yrs — to Plowman’s leadership and steering.

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“More than the last five many years, we are now quantity one in development and admissions (in the SEC), in significant element to the simple fact that we have got a terrific leader in location here,” Boyd claimed. 

A compensation review seeking at UT’s peer and aspirational institutions — other universities in the U.S. that UT compares itself to as a benchmark — discovered that Plowman’s income fell about $200,000 considerably less than those people in the 75th percentile. 

Plowman also receives a housing allowance of $1,667 per month, prior to taxes, and other standard positive aspects together with overall health insurance policy, retirement pay back, paid time off, tuition waivers and discount rates. She’s also reimbursed for work-associated journey expenditures.

Plowman became the greatest-paid chancellor in the university’s heritage when she was employed in 2019. Former Chancellor Beverly Davenport was beforehand the maximum-paid out chancellor with a $585,000 yearly salary.

Plowman is the next-maximum paid out chancellor in the UT Procedure. UT Wellness Science Center Chancellor Peter Buckley receives a foundation wage of $950,000.

The final decision does not require to be accepted by the UT Board of Trustees. No compensation adjustments have been manufactured to other UT procedure chancellors

Salaries of UT leaders

• Peter Buckley, UT Wellbeing Science Heart: $950,000
• Donde Plowman, UT Knoxville: $820,000
• Carrie Castille, UT Institute of Agriculture: $400,000
• Steve Angle, UT Chattanooga: $382,512
• Keith Carver, UT Martin: $333,628
• Mark La Branche, UT Southern: $240,000
• Herb Byrd, UT Institute of Public Support: $226,272
• Mark Whorton, UT Area Institute: $226,272
• Randy Boyd, UT Procedure President: $10,000