The salaries of university employees Sandra Spanier and Michele Kirsch — both spouses of high ranking university officials — were included in Penn State’s refiled Right-to-Know report.

According to the report, Sandra Spanier, a professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts, earns a compensation of $126,813. Sandra Spanier is the wife of Penn State President Graham Spanier.

University spokesman Geoff Rushton said $27,936 of the compensation was a grant from a national endowment for the humanities. Sandra Spanier, who is an international scholar on Ernest Hemingway, received the endowment for her position in the Hemingway Letters Project, Rushton said.

Michele Kirsch, director of administration operations for Schreyer Honors College, was given a $83,171 compensation. Michele Kirsch is the wife of Rod Kirsch, the senior vice president for development and alumni relations.

Sandra Spanier’s and Michele Kirsch’s salaries were required to be released under the “business transactions involving interested persons” section of the 990 tax form in the Right-to-Know report.

Also disclosed in the report was the salary of Graham Spanier, who earns a base salary of $605,004 and receives a total of $799,386 in pay and benefits, and football coach Joe Paterno, whose base salary is $540,942 and total pay and benefits amounts to $1,109,977. Graham Spanier and Paterno’s salaries were included in the original report.

The entire Right-to-Know report can be viewed at controller.psu.edu.