We learn this news despite the fact that administrative hires at colleges have more than doubled in 25 years.

Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.

Public Salary Recovery

After three years in which private college and university administrators led their public counterparts in salary gains, the publics are on top in 2013-14.

The gains in public higher education are also larger than those of a year before, while the private increase is smaller than last year’s, according to a study released today by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. Overall, the increase is 2.4 percent — with the public increase 2.5 percent and the private increase 2.3 percent. Based on an increase of 1.5 percent in the Consumer Price Index for the period covered, that means that public and private administrators are all enjoying increases in purchasing power…

The results come in a year in which many states started to put more money into public higher education, following the deep cuts that started after the economy took so many hits in 2008.

Comparing colleges by highest degrees awarded, doctoral institutions saw the largest gains for administrators (2.6 percent), higher than those for master’s institutions (2.0 percent), baccalaureate (2.3 percent), associate institutions (2.4 percent) and specialized institutions (2.0 percent). And doctoral institutions are the only category in which private gains out paced those of the public sector.

See an in-depth analysis of the numbers at the link below.