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University Spends $10.6 MILLION A Year On Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Salaries. Is It Working?

Ashe Schow

The University of Michigan (UM) spends about $10.6 million a year on the salaries of 82 employees who have something relating to diversity in their title.

Mark Perry, an economics professor at the university and an American Enterprise Scholar, compiled data on publicly available salaries searching for the terms “diversity,” “equity,” and “inclusion.” He found 82 employees with some combination of those words in their title and added up their salaries for the total. The highest paid employee with a variation of this title is the school’s vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer (that’s his full title), who is paid $407,653 a year.

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