Plagiarist Claudine Gay getting paid $3.1 million/year after “resigning” from Harvard

A post for those who are draining their 529 accounts to pay Harvard tuition, room, and board ($91,634/year total) and for friends who work at Harvard (A.K.A., the “dumb ones” who wrote their PhD thesis from scratch)…

January 2024, the New York Times tells us that Claudine Gay “resigned” her job at Harvard University:

Being a plagiarist disqualified her from the President job, but not from continuing for the rest of her life as a professor. How much is Claudine Gay gettting paid? Harvard’s latest Form 990 (Fiscal Year ended June 2025, so the period starts 6 months after her purported “resignation”):

Claudine Gay received $1.55 million, then, for one year of work as a lowly professor? No. Schedule O reveals that she worked for only half of FY2025:

The arithmetic is $1.4 million in W-2 earnings plus another $150k in “other compensation” and then, since she didn’t work for the first half of the year (“post-presidential sabbatical” (at home trying to figure out how to get ChatGPT to do the tedious plagiarism work on the next book?)), multiply by 2 = $3.1 million/year annualized.

Separately, Claudine Gay is the “Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies”. How much money would one have to give to Harvard to get her $3.1 million/year job retitled “the Jason A. K. Arday Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies”?

(Separately, the page below says that she’s interested in “how the election of minority officeholders affects citizens’ perceptions of their government”. Wokipedia says that in at least nine states, and presumably a lot more cities, a “minority officeholder” would be a non-Hispanic white person: “As of 2024, nine states are majority-minority: Hawaii (20.7%), California (32.6%), New Mexico (35.1%), Texas (37.8%), Nevada (42.8%), Maryland (45.3%), Georgia (48.0%), Florida (49.1%), and New Jersey (49.5%).”)