Among the other higher education sectors, chancellors earn considerably more, Edgert said. The chancellor of the University of California System, which has nine campuses and approximately 175,000 students, earns about $240,000 a year, and the California State University chancellor, in charge of twenty-two campuses and 350,000 students, earns approximately $ 190,000.
With a recent history of high turnover in the community college system, salary levels has been an issue, Edgert said. As many as three-fourths of president and chancellor positions around the system have been empty at one time. Some urban districts, such as Los Angeles, have had several changes in their leadership within just a few years.
"The average life-expectancy of a community college chancellor in California is 3.2 years," Anderson said. "People are not able to do it for very long. I'm working fourteen-hour days and I'm out in the community three or four nights a week. They should be paying me more."
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