DEI hires are making 6x the median income. pic.twitter.com/jM3M4Radqd

— Victor Nieves (@ItsVictorNieves) July 24, 2026

When you see a story like this, you have to wonder, “Am I enough of a minority to be a diversity hire?”

The University of Minnesota has been busted for paying their diversity hires around $1,500,000 annually.

The Gateway Pundit reported,

The University of Minnesota is paying ‘diversity staffers’ almost a million and a half dollars every year. And people still wonder how college has gotten so expensive.

What exactly do diversity staffers even do? Does anyone know?

Parents and students must understand that when they take out massive government loans to pay for college, this is part of what they are paying for. The exorbitant salaries of these pointless employees.

Campus Reform reports:

The University of Minnesota pays its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) staff members more than $1.4 million annually, according to publicly available state payroll records.

Despite federal executive orders restricting DEI offices and activities, the University of Minnesota maintains an Office for Equity and Diversity, which consists “of over 15 offices and major initiatives.”

“Equity and diversity is fundamental to everything we do at the University of Minnesota,” the office’s website says.

Record from 2025 list Vice President for Equity and Diversity Mercedes Ramírez Fernández ($391,759), Associate Vice President for Equity and Diversity and Faculty Development Keisha Varma ($238,540), Associate Vice Presidents Tina Marisam ($230,444) and Malinda Lindquist ($196,267), and Chief of Staff Elizabeth Martinez-Podolsky ($164,800).

What exactly do these people even do, sit around and complain about white people all day?

The median annual salary for a full-time worker in America is around $65,000.

Some of these DEI hires are getting around six times that much.

If young people are wondering why college is so expensive, maybe the insane, wasteful spending has something to do with it.