美國大學校長年薪超過大多數企業高管

College presidents on average earn $377,261 annually, or more than twice the average pay for CEOs, who take home about $176,840 on average each year, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

根據克利夫蘭聯邦儲備銀行的最新調查顯示，美國大學校長的平均年收入爲37.7261萬美元，是CEO平均年薪的兩倍多，後者的平均年薪爲17.684萬美元。

At the same time, American students face ever-increasing tuition bills, with the growth in college costs for years dwarfing the rate of inflation. The question of why college now costs so much more than it did a few decades ago prompted the economists to ask if the cause could be the high pay taken home by college presidents.

同時，美國學生也面臨着不斷增長的學費賬單，多年來大學費用的增長已經高於通貨膨脹率。爲什麼現在大學的費用比幾十年前要高這一問題使得經濟學家質疑，是否原因可能是大學校長的高工資造成的。

Not every college president is pulling in the big bucks, however. Leaders at research universities earn much higher compensation than rivals at colleges that only offer bachelor's degrees. Presidents at research universities are pulling in an average of $1.18m, compared with $280,974 for presidents at four-year institutions focusing on the arts and sciences.

但並非每位大學校長的年薪都很高。研究型大學的校長的收入遠高於僅提供學士學位的大學的校長。研究型大學的校長的平均年收入爲118萬美元，而專注於藝術與科學四年制教育的大學的校長平均年薪僅爲28.0974萬美元。

That may seem like a tidy sum, but the researchers said it's not college presidents' rich pay packages that are to blame for soaring tuition. If college presidents were to divide up their pay and write out checks to all their students, the per-person payout would be fairly low, amounting to no more than $300 per student.

這可能看起來是一個很好的總結，但是研究者們卻表示，大學校長們的高額工資並不是學費飛漲的原因。如果大學校長要把他們的工資分配出來並給所有的學生開支票，那麼人均支出將相當低，每名學生將不會到達300美元。

"Because the president at a given college is only one person, whereas colleges generally enroll hundreds or even thousands of students, lowering the salaries of college presidents would not do much to contain per-student costs," the researchers note.

調查者指出：“在一個特定的大學，校長只是一個人，而普通高校要招生幾百甚至幾千名學生，所以降低大學校長的工資對控制每個學生的費用不會有太大作用。”