State’s highest-paid employees include URI coaches, president

A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION on Tuesday voted to recommend the establishment of the state’s first public medical school at the University of Rhode Island. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

PROVIDENCE – Workers at a college, hospital and a prison are among Rhode Island’s highest-paid state employees. They include a pair of University of Rhode Island basketball coaches, the school’s president and provost, and a psychiatric physician from the R.I. Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals, according to 2025 payroll data obtained by

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