根据克利夫兰联邦储备银行的最新调查显示，美国大学校长的平均年收入为37.7261万美元，是CEO平均年薪的两倍多，后者的平均年薪为17.684万美元。

　　At the same time, American students face ever-increasing tuition bills, with the growth in college costs for years dwarfing the rate of inflation. The question of why college now costs so much more than it did a few decades ago prompted the economists to ask if the cause could be the high pay taken home by college presidents.

　　同时，美国学生也面临着不断增长的学费账单，多年来大学费用的增长已经高于通货膨胀率。为什么现在大学的费用比几十年前要高这一问题使得经济学家质疑，是否原因可能是大学校长的高工资造成的。

　　美国大学校长年薪超过大多数企业高管

　　Not every college president is pulling in the big bucks, however. Leaders at research universities earn much higher compensation than rivals at colleges that only offer bachelor's degrees. Presidents at research universities are pulling in an average of $1.18m, compared with $280,974 for presidents at four-year institutions focusing on the arts and sciences.

　　但并非每位大学校长的年薪都很高。研究型大学的校长的收入远高于仅提供学士学位的大学的校长。研究型大学的校长的平均年收入为118万美元，而专注于艺术与科学四年制教育的大学的校长平均年薪仅为28.0974万美元。

　　That may seem like a tidy sum, but the researchers said it's not college presidents' rich pay packages that are to blame for soaring tuition. If college presidents were to divide up their pay and write out checks to all their students, the per-person payout would be fairly low, amounting to no more than $300 per student.

　　这可能看起来是一个很好的总结，但是研究者们却表示，大学校长们的高额工资并不是学费飞涨的原因。如果大学校长要把他们的工资分配出来并给所有的学生开支票，那么人均支出将相当低，每名学生将不会到达300美元。

　　"Because the president at a given college is only one person, whereas colleges generally enroll hundreds or even thousands of students, lowering the salaries of college presidents would not do much to contain per-student costs," the researchers note.

　　调查者指出：“在一个特定的大学，校长只是一个人，而普通高校要招生几百甚至几千名学生，所以降低大学校长的工资对控制每个学生的费用不会有太大作用。”