LINCOLN - At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a music professor’s salary jumped $13,000 in the past decade. A University of Nebraska at Kearney political science professor’s salary grew by $15,000. A University of Nebraska at Omaha social work professor got a $19,000 bump. But then you factor in inflation, and the financial reality becomes clear: All three actually took serious pay cuts. When adjusted, the music professor suffered a pay slash of 16%. It’s part of a profound shift in how the University of Nebraska makes money, spends money, and who it spends money on.

In 2000, NU paid its administrators and professional staff $155 million. This year, a quarter century later, that number has more than tripled to $484 million. At the same time, pay to faculty has grown, but at a much slower rate than inflation.

In 2024, for the first time this century, the state’s public university system spent more on administrators, managers and professional staff than it did on faculty members who teach students, advise students and do research on its five campuses.

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