The $635,000 Woman

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher recently picked up an addition $90,000 a year by declining a Manhattan apartment and Chancellor's apartment in Albany called for in her contract. She decided to keep the car and driver paid for by the tax payers of the State of New York. The driver will probably come in hand for the commute from her $935,000 home in in the Sage Estates in Menand. (http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=816528)

$635,400 = $490,000 salary + $90,000 housing allowance + $55,400 retirement benefits
(cost of car and driver additional but unspecified)

Tax payers also kicked in a SUNY professorship for hubby Kenneth Howey. (http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=816528)

$635,00 buys you such platitudes as:

• “It’s just working magically,” she said about her visits. “I’m getting a chance to have communication with the president, to build that relationship which is just so important.”
• "We need an audacious goal for that future, so that we can be partners with the state of New York."
• "We need to share better."
• UB 2020—is a “great idea because it gives us a bit more of an opportunity to manifest our destiny, if you will, to play to the market.”
  

Feel like you're getting your money's worth?