Yes, I was going to say follow the money - the administrators get paid well, and yet by the same logic applied to the academics, the administrators should be pa

Yes, I was going to say follow the money - the administrators get paid well, and yet by the same logic applied to the academics, the administrators should be paid a pittance, because there's no shortage of administrators. They'd probably argue that you have to pay well for a good administrator. How do you measure a good administrator? By how much money they save. So the less the academics are paid, the more the administrators save and so therefore the more they are paid - and we're there. It used to be academics took turns at administrating for a couple of years, this was before the rise of the professional manager, and they insinuated themselves everywhere.