State, university employees' salaries swell

Jane Stancill and David Raynor of The (Raleigh/Durham) News & Observer analyzed state payroll data to find that "there are already more than 2,200 state and University of North Carolina system employees who are paid more than $100,000 in state money a year; more than two-thirds of them work at the universities." Pay for university employees has arisen as an issue now that UNC system is searching for a new president.