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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — In a story July 8 about the salary of Jim Purcell, Rhode Island's new commissioner of postsecondary education, The Associated Press reported erroneously the amount Purcell would receive in a retirement annuity and the process by which his salary was being approved.
Purcell will receive $15,000 in the annuity, not $390,000. The director of administration still must approve the salary, it was not approved by a state hearing board.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Purcell would receive $175,000 salary under contract
Rhode Island would pay new commissioner of postsecondary education $175,000
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's new commissioner of postsecondary education would receive a salary of $175,000 under a deal forwarded to the director of administration for approval.
That is an increase from the $134,639 paid when the job was called commissioner of higher education.
Jim Purcell, who was formerly the higher education commissioner in Louisiana, began work on July 1. A public hearing on the salary increase was held on Monday by a state personnel administrator, and the increase was forwarded to the director of administration for approval, according to Clark Greene, the outgoing acting commissioner of higher education.
His contract also includes $15,000 a year paid into a supplemental retirement annuity and a state car for both business and personal use. The Board of Education will pay for all gas and repairs.
Purcell will oversee a system that includes a state university, a four-year state college, and one community college with six campuses.
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