You keep erecting straw men in this exchange. I have not argued that it was the right decision to give her 100% of both salaries. I tend to agree there should be some savings there from combining the two. I have pointed out that she received a significant promotion that led to the higher salary, making it dishonest to suggest that she received a $100,000 “raise.”

And for your information, the lobbyist does report directly to President Barker.

I honestly don’t know what a Lobbyist should be paid to work for Clemson University – $80K $90K may be a very good salary – just don’t tell me we just added another full time job to her duties, double her salary and expect everyone to think this is just normal actions – that’ unbelievable – increase of $10K over 6 years on a legitimate $80K – Ok about the State average – $ 180K from $80K under the story of adding a “complete” additional job to her duties – well, my questions remain – but, I will also stand by my statement that $10K increase in salary over the past 6 years – is extremely unusual at Clemson – again, unless you report to Barker or you are a see nothing, say nothing, hear nothing – accepted to follow with no questions part of the “club” -

I do know the base. It is $80,000. How do I know that? It was in the article. What we don’t know for sure is the current salary just for her lobbying position. As I noted earlier, it was poster #8 that assumed that the current salary for the lobbyist position is $90,000 (one half $180,000), and I pointed out the flaw in his assumption. If you have a problem with his math, take it up with the source.

You are moving the goal posts by trying to back the salary down to $35,000 to justify your silly statements about the increase. From her original salary of $80,000 to $90,000, it averages out to less than 2.5 % per year, which is not unusual. Whether you think lobbyists should be making $80,000 is irrelevant to whether the pay increase she received over 6 years was “odd.”

$10k over 6 years is just a little over 2% a year for 6 years. I know many governmental employees are eligble for up to a 2.5% raise based upon performance per year plus any COL adjustments. Again, if this seems odd to you, maybe you should evaluate your job and your performance.

Are you proud of the football players who flunked out of school last year and had to be declared academically ineligible for your bowl game? Are you proud that the Rev. Tammy Bowdown basically has done nothing to punish a player who was arrested for DUI (a more serious offense than any alleged to have been committed by USC players in the time since)? Are you proud that female athletes at Clemson who got pregnant while on athletic scholarship were pressured by coaches to have abortions or face the possible loss of their scholarships? Finally, are you proud of that tainted National Championship in football that Clemson bought and paid for in 1981? Yeah, real fine athletic program y’all are running up there.