College’s salaries vary from two to six figures
- Based on experience and tenure, some employees get paid significantly more than others.
- Report looks at 10-year span of raises in salaries.
By Eric Nguyen, Editor
When merit-based raises were given this year, OCCC President Paul Sechrist received a 3.3 percent salary increase raising his salary from $207,036 for fiscal year 2007-’08 to $215,033.
Sechrist has earned salary increases on an average of $8,457 since he accepted the position in May 2006.
Academic Affairs Vice President Felix Aquino, with OCCC since January, will make $114,960 in fiscal year 2007-’08.
The average salary of a dean at OCCC was $54,152 in 1997 and $64,362 in 2002.
OCCC deans will see an average pay raises from $74,048 to $75,810 this fiscal year.
The dean to see the highest total increase is Special Initiatives Dean Susan VanSchuyver. She will receive a salary increase from $79,878 to $92,295, making her the college’s highest paid dean.
VanSchuyver has been employed at OCCC since 1990.
Safety and Security Director Ike Sloas, hired in January 2005, will see a pay raise from $68,543 to $74,749 in fiscal year 2007-’08.
Safety and Security Coordinator Keith Bourque’s salary will increase from $40,803 to $44,838. Bourque was hired in October 1992 as a Safety and Security officer.
OCCC Campus Safety and Security armed officers made an average of $21,533 in fiscal year 2006-’07. This year, they will earn an average of $23,511.
Part-time professors, whose salaries will increase from $590 to $615 per credit hour this fiscal year, have experienced a 27 percent pay raise since 1997.
Student employees are seeing pay raises as well. Students making $7 per hour will increase to $7.25, and those making $7.50 per hour will make $7.75 providing they’ve been employed at OCCC for 12 months.
In 2002, student employees at the college earned $6.50 and $7, compared to 1997, when students earned $5 and $5.25.
In fiscal year 2007-’08, $35,891,800 of OCCC’s total budget of $48,064,462 is directed toward salaries, wages and benefits.
Employee salaries from the annual Staffing Plan and an overview of the college budget is public information that can be obtained by an Open Records request, available in OCCC’s Public Relations office.
Editor Eric Nguyen can be reached at editor@occc.edu.
