The 10 highest-salaried professors at the University come from a variety of backgrounds - from a former University president to the chair of a state economic advisory panel.
"Those are very, very productive people," said Jay A. Tischfield of the individuals with the highest salaries. "They put more into Rutgers than they get out of it."
Tischfield, a medical professor who ranks third on the list, said he has been offered higher salaries in other medical institutions, but he turned down the offers.
"I stayed at Rutgers, because the whole Rutgers experience is not something you walk away from, and that's the truth," Tischfield said.
Tischfield also said he enjoyed teaching undergraduates rather than working at graduate medical schools.
According to the 2004-2005 Rutgers Fact Book, the national average salary of a full professor is $101,000 per year. In comparison, the average salary for a professor II averages around $125,000-$150,000. The top salaries at the University are almost double this amount.
Only one woman, chemistry professor Helen M. Berman, is represented in the top 10.
• First on the list is political science professor Norman Samuels, who made more than $270,000 this year as of the April 4. Samuels served as provost of Rutgers-Newark for two decades - during which time he transformed the campus into a culturally diverse community and a major national research university. Samuels retired from his post in 2002 to continue teaching in the classroom.
• Francis L. Lawrence made almost $240,000 this year. His service as president of Rutgers from 1990 to 2002 brought about University participation in Big East conference athletics, massive fundraising efforts and the recruitment of an award-winning faculty. He retired from his post in order to teach.
• Tischfield, taking in $234,000 this year, is the MacMillan Professor and chair of the Department of Genetics at the University, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and the director of the Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey.
• David Mechanic received almost $226,000 as the director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research. He has either written or edited 24 books and 400 research articles on health care issues, social science and behavioral science. Mechanic also holds a post as the René Dubos University as a professor of behavioral sciences.
• Glenn R. Shafer - a professor II of accounting and information studies - received almost $218,000.
• Joesph J. Seneca received around $208,000 as the University professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He is also the chairman of the New Jersey Council of Economic Advisors.
• Berman, a professor II of chemistry and chemical biology, made almost $206,000 this year. She also serves as a Board of Governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology.
• Ernest Lepore is the writer of a number of papers on philosophy and metaphysics and is the acting director of cognitive sciences. Three months of additional work as the cognitive science director has bumped his salary up to $205,000 for this year only.
• Henryk Iwaniec - a special professor of mathematics - received the 2002 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in number theory and has written a number of papers on analytical theory. His salary comes to a little more than $205,000.
• Joel L. Lebowitz is the George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics, and his salary also comes to more than $205,000. Lebowitz was given the Boltzmann Award for contributions to equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
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