Governor Opposes Pay Hike for Berkeley Chancellor

California Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, used his power as a member of the University of California Board of Regents to vote against the $486,800 salary for the new chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, the Associated Press reported. The salary for Nicholas Dirks was approved on an 11-3 vote. Brown said that he supported Dirks, but this was the wrong time to increase the pay for Berkeley's chancellor by $50,000. "I believe a $50,000 increase from the incumbent — even though the incumbent did not get a pay increase for several years — does not fit within the spirit of servant leadership that I think will be required over the next several years," Brown said.