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The Wisconsin Technical College System has its own board and administrative staff. However, the system office said it does not keep a centralized database with salary information on its 16 presidents.

The Journal Sentinel collected salary information from technical colleges through public records requests to get a sense of compensation among public higher education leaders in Wisconsin in the 2023-24 school year.

Here’s six takeaways from our analysis:

Average technical college president compensation package outpaces regional UW chancellors

UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee are classified as Research 1 institutions, meaning their missions are not only to educate students with four-year degrees, master’s and doctorates, but to produce a high level of research. Remove both universities from the picture, and there are 11 comprehensive UW four-year universities remaining, with an average chancellor compensation package of $318,702.