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gjm comments on Open thread, July 29-August 4, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gjm 11 August 2013 01:59:19AM 0 points [-]

It seems very unlikely to me that this could account for more than a very small fraction of the budget. Surely these administrators are neither many in number, nor extravagantly paid?

Comment author: beoShaffer 11 August 2013 03:21:28AM 0 points [-]

I don't have exact numbers, but the reason I made this suggestion is that I noticed my college has a a large number of these people relative to our size. Also, that was just going by people's job titles, its possible that several administrative departs that have other reasons for existing but that intersect with heavily regulated areas have added more staff to cope. Furthermore, I got the impression that they were fairly well compensated. I doubt they're a huge chunk of the total budget, but I think its possible that they account for a decent amount of the increase in the size of the administration.