<p>Let me just point out how very skewed the data is for pay. I can assure you that the “average” salary is NOT the average salary of many, many of those who work for the typical state school on the list. An entire class of employees is left off. The average prof’s pay is there (skewed quite a bit if it’s a school with law & med, by the way), and the average administrative salary is there. But there are many, many employees in a state U who are neither profs nor administrators … and these employees are absolutely not included in any published averages.</p>