University Professors of the World Unite under Dr. Reich!

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[JB note: My (granted picayune) efforts to get direct information from Professor Reich and his assistant (s?) on his salary were unsuccessful (however an initial cyber search did disclose some data) -- despite my hopes of who could be more objective for additional information on income equality and "open communications" than said Professor Facebook Reich.

So I again turned to the internet for more enlightenment and stumbled upon the below in a piece (2014) by Mark J. Perry in the American Enterprise Institute.]

Excerpt:

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich is currently a professor of public policy at the University of California-Berkeley and he was paid $242,613 in 2013 according to this University of California database. According to this link provided in an article by the Daily Caller, Professor Reich is scheduled to teach only one undergraduate class this fall semester – Public Policy 260 – that meets only one day a week (Monday) for two hours (12 – 2 p.m.). That works out to about $2,500 for each hour of lecture time that Professor Reich will spend with UC-Berkeley students this semester, or about the same amount as the average adjunct college professor gets paid for teaching an entire one-semester 15-week class ($2,700 according to this AAUP report)! ...

In addition to his annual CU-Berkeley salary of $242,613, Professor Reich is also a popular speaker on the nation’s lecture circuit, and he commands a handsome speaking fee of $40,000 for a one-hour talk (including Q and A) plus first class travel for one or two people from California, hotel accommodations for up to two nights, ground transportation, meals and incidentals. That’s the quote I got today from one of Professor Reich’s speaking bureaus for his fee to give a presentation as part of a “university program” — it’s possible that he charges even more for corporate events. ...