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https://www.thecollegefix.com/umich...cated-to-dei-payroll-costs-exceed-30-million/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WbFztg7z0oQKdNlL73L6q9FeMaCSucq0/edit
UM employs at least 241 paid staff members whose main duties are to provide DEI programming and services as either their exclusive or primary job responsibility. In addition, 76 faculty or staff members work part-time as “DEI Unit Leads” advancing diversity efforts in one of UM’s 51 schools, colleges, and units that are a key part of UM’s new 5-year diversity plan called
The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) 2.0 Plan. We did not include the salaries of the part-time “DEI Unit Leads” to calculate the annual cost of DEI at UM, but did include them in the list of DEI-related staff members at UM which brings the total DEI headcount to 317 employees. For reasons discussed below, we believe that the actual number of DEI staff at UM is actually significantly higher than 317, and likely exceeds 500 employees.
b. The total annual payroll of UM’s full-time DEI staff is estimated to be $30.68 million -- $23.24 million for staff salaries and $7.44 million for employee fringe benefits. To put that in perspective, $30.68 million would pay in-state tuition and fees (
$17,228) for 1,781 undergraduate students. UM’s DEI staff is well compensated with salaries as high as $402,800 for UM’s head diversity administrator Tabbye Chavous Sellers, UM’s Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion & Chief Diversity Officer. In contrast, Michigan’s governor Gretchen Whitmer’s salary is $159,300, and the average salaries for assistant, associate, and full professors at UM are $129,500, $148,300, and $206,500 respectively. Therefore, UM’s chief diversity officer is paid almost 2X more than the average full professor at UM, 2.5X more than the governor, and about 3X more than the average UM assistant or associate professor.
Thirteen DEI staff members earn more than $200,000 and 66 earn more than $100,000. The average DEI salary at UM is $96,400, which brings total average compensation to more than $127,000 with fringe benefits added at a rate of 32%. With fringe benefits, 144 DEI employees at UM receive a total compensation of more than $100,000.