BOSTON -
A Team 5 investigation found that Thomas D. Manning, deputy chancellor of Commonwealth Medicine, will be eligible for the states highest pension when he leaves his position June 30.
Manning works at a nonprofit consulting operation at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) that employees 1,800 people and has been hired by more than 20 states.
Manning is currently one of the states highest-paid employees with a base salary of $433,500.
Last year he earned a $130,050 bonus and received a $43,350 boost to his retirement plan.
The school also reimbursed him $25,396.56 for the cost of leasing a 2009 Chevrolet Impala and $2,160 for an annual membership to the Worcester Club for entertainment purposes.
Its a compensation package worth more than $634,456.
The compensation is so far out of whack with anything else, with any other set of values that you see in state government that it just really jumps out at you, said Kevin Preston, state director of the National Association of Government Employees.
Its four times what Gov. Deval Patrick makes and double what Michael Trotsky, the man in charge of managing Massachusetts $41.3 billion pension fund earns.
The school has reduced its staff by 107 people in the last three years.
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