Select Group

The select group of movers and shakers at the head of Australia’s education-industrial complex have tapped into a source of wealth far greater than what would have been available to them in the academic teaching backgrounds many of them have come from.

Vice-Chancellor Salary Packages (Archive 2017)

University	VC Name	Salary Package ($)
University of Sydney	Michael Spence	1,445,000
Australian Catholic University	Greg Craven	1,245,000
University of New South Wales	Ian Jacobs	1,215,000
University of Queensland	Peter Hoj	1,160,000
University of Melbourne	Glyn Davis	1,145,000
University of Adelaide	Warren Bebbington*	1,083,000
Queensland University of Technology	Peter Coaldrake	1,080,000
Swinburne University of Technology	Linda Kristjansen	1,065,000
Flinders University	Colin Stirling	1,045,000
University of Western Australia	Paul Johnson*	1,035,000
Monash University	Margaret Gardner	1,025,000
Griffith University	Ian O’Connor	1,020,000
Deakin University	Jane den Hollander	995,000
University of Technology Sydney	Attila Brungs	985,000
RMIT University	Martin Bean	965,000
University of South Australia	David Lloyd	955,000
Macquarie University	Bruce Dowton	945,000
James Cook University	Sandra Harding	940,000
University of Wollongong	Paul Wellings	905,000
University of Tasmania	Peter Rathjen	878,000
Western Sydney University	Barney Glover	875,000
Edith Cowan University	Steve Chapman	865,000
La Trobe University	John Dewar	848,000
University of Newcastle	Caroline McMillen	845,000
Curtin University	Deborah Terry	815,000
University of Canberra	Stephen Parker*	815,000
Victoria University	Peter Dawkins	795,000
University of the Sunshine Coast	Greg Hill	735,000
Charles Sturt University	Andy Vann	734,000
Federation University	David Battersby	725,000
University of New England	Annabelle Duncan	724,000
Charles Darwin University	Simon Maddocks	647,000
University of Southern Queensland	Jan Thomas*	640,000
Australian National University	Brian Schmidt	618,000
Murdoch University	Eeva Leinonen*	585,000
CQUniversity	Scott Bowman	548,000
Southern Cross University	Peter Lee*	500,000
University of Divinity	Peter Sherlock	255,000

Source: Julie Hare: ‘Uni vice-chancellors average salary package hits $890,000’ The Australian 5th August 2017 (opens in new window)

Key & Notes

* VC names with an asterix * are no longer working in that position.

Are They Worth It?

The University of Sydney is not able to compete with other Australian universities at the very top level of most of the ranking systems but they have come out well on top here with clearly the highest salary package of them all.

ACU is delivering the second highest salary package but there might be some justification for this given the complex nature of the multi-campus university spread throughout the eastern states and the ACT.

VC Power Couple

Also worth noting is that the listed vice-chancellors of Melbourne and Monash Universities are bound together through the vows of holy matrimony and their leadership of two of the top ranked Australian universities, far and away the top two universities in Victoria, is compensated with a combined household salary package of well over two million dollars. As an added bonus they get to travel together to industry conferences (although not all married couples would consider this to be a bonus).

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