Why the UW took the professors' salaries off the web.

Did you know you used to be able to look up all our salaries on line? Not any more. They took them down. Do you think they did that because it was something of an intrusion on our privacy? No.

UW System spokesperson David Giroux said the step was taken to reduce the “regular outflow of talented researchers in the university.”

Citing the retention of professors as “becoming a much bigger problem with every passing year,” Giroux maintained that the easy access of individual salary information made UW professors an easy target for other institutions.

Why were the salaries up on line in the first place? To save money printing up booklets!