University President takes $ 90K pay cut to increase the salaries of employees with low income

Your time may be short, but Kentucky State University Interim President Raymond Burse memorable visit your office. Recently Burse and the Board of Regents of the school approved a measure to $ 90,000 to spend his salary to inflate the wages of labor to the minimum wage of college - a measure to increase the salary of $ 10.25 per hour.

Burse, former president of the University 1982-1989, recently returned to KSU. As a temporary replacement for the now retired President Mary Evans Sias His clients as president of KSU, Burse spent 17 years with General Electric before retiring in 2012.

"My thing is that I do not work," Burse said . "This is not a hobby, but in terms of the people who lift hard and difficult to do that in the pay scale of less work." This should be the residents living wage scale, where an adult in the area is to help a little more than $ 8, while an adult with a child can be more than $ 17 notes Vox . After reducing his salary, Burse a little more than $ 250,000 for the year.