First of all, lets acknowledge that the author is with the Canadian Taxpayers Coalition - an organization with strong anti-labour, anti-public service bias. If they had their way, public servants would all work for free.  At the same time though, it is important that public sector employees, including university administrators be compensated fairly. Typically, professionals within the public sector earn about 85% of a similar profession in the private sector. Certain professionals such as accountants, engineers, and lawyers within the public sector earn significantly less than their counterparts in the private sector. The trade-off of course is the job stability within the public sector. So the questions here are, 1) how does the administrator compare to other Canadian University professionals in the same position; and, 2) how do they compare to similar positions within the private sector? Of course, I would not commission the Canadian Taxpayer's Coalition to conduct that analysis.