The University of California employs approximately 185,000 faculty and staff across 10 campuses and five medical centers. New hiring, resignations, promotions, transfers to new duties and the like occur frequently across the system. Total systemwide salaries are reported annually to the UC Board of Regents as a group and posted at www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/compensation/reports.html.

UC policy for salary and appointments of senior management group (SMG) positions requires that compensation be reviewed and approved by the regents. Salary and appointments of non-SMG, non-academic employees whose total compensation is higher than $218,000 and whose actions are approved by campuses or other UC locations must be reported to the regents in the next bi-monthly report following approval of the action.

The following appointment was approved by the UC Board of Regents today (March 29):

Office of the President

Glenn Mara, vice president, Laboratory Management
Approval was requested for Mr. Mara as a term appointment effective on or about July 1, 2012, for a total compensation of $394,266. This request was in response to the impending departure of the incumbent. Mr. Mara will be responsible for management of the UC Laboratory Management Office in its efforts to support Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Limited Liability Companies that manage Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as well as the university's oversight of the Department of Energy (DOE) contractual agreements relating to science and technology research programs at the National Laboratories.

Mr. Mara's annual base salary of $367,000 is 4.8 percent below the midpoint for the SLCG Grade 112 ($385,300) and 4.2 percent below the 50th percentile market base salary of $383,100.

Mr. Mara is a rehired retiree currently serving as Acting Associate Vice President Laboratory Programs on a 43 percent basis. Mr. Mara, as a condition of appointment, will suspend all payment of retirement benefits consistent with regents' policy.

This position is funded from non-state sources, specifically the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) contract fee earned as UC's partner share at LANL and LLNL and reimbursement for laboratory management expenses approved by the DOE Contracting Officer at LBNL. The funds for this position are part of the UCOP expenditures budget paid from lab fees annually approved by the regents.

Interim actions

Some appointments and compensation are approved by the chair of the Committee on Compensation and the UC President as interim actions, which arise between meetings and must be dealt with more quickly for a variety of reasons. They come to the board as informational items; the actions presented most recently to the board as informational items are posted at www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/mar12/interim.pdf.