Vice chancellor gets £19k pay rise
LOUGHBOROUGH University vice chancellor Robert Allison has been given a £19,000 pay rise after the salaries of vice chancellors across the county were revealed in the latest sets of accounts.
Pay rises were also given to vice chancellors at Leicester University and De Montfort University.
Loughborough VC Professor Robert Allison was awarded a £19, 333 pay rise (8.7 per cent) in 2016/17, taking his salary to £240,000.
His overall package was worth £283,200, including a £43,200 pension contribution.
Loughborough was 10th in the 2018 Good University Guide.
Staff were offered a one per cent increase in 2016/17 and their average salary was £38,100.
Salary levels for university bosses have featured in the news in recent months after it emerged some were being paid more than £400,000.
Bath University’s vice-chancellor, Dame Prof Glynis Breakwell, stepped down after a row over her £468,000 salary, and Sir Christopher Snowdon, the vice-chancellor of Southampton University, has been criticised for his £424,000 salary.
Universities minister Jo Johnson has said regulations will see VC pay brought “under control” as tuition fees are reviewed and expected to rise.
Dominic Shellard, at De Montfort University, was the best paid VC in Leicestershire .
His salary rose to by £3,000 (one per cent) in 2016/17 to £286,000, though his overall package was £331,000, including a bonus of £38,000, health insurance benefits of £1,000 and a pension contribution of £6,000.
Staff received the nationally set 1.1 per cent increase, and the average staff salary at De Montfort, which was ranked 80th in the 2018 Good University Guide, was £36,675.
The salary of University of Leicester vice-chancellor Prof Paul Boyle rose from £259,000 to £278,000 in 2016/17 – a 7.3 per cent increase.
However his overall package fell to £288,000 due to reduced pension contributions. The university, ranked 30th in the Good University guide for 2018, had an average staff salary of £37,500.
A Loughborough University spokesman said: “Loughborough University operates a common approach for all staff salaries based on the same performance and development review (PDR) process.
“The increase in the vice-chancellor’s salary is therefore performance-related.
“The increase does not exceed that available to other high performing staff through the PDR scheme.
“The vice-chancellor’s pay is in the third lowest quartile of the sector despite Loughborough having risen into the top-ten of UK universities.”