I don't know about New School, but at CUNY the admin don't set their own salary it has a very well defined set of rules. This is all accessible to the public as we aren't a private school. Where we get hit is overtime, and since us professors don't get overtime, and most office admin don't come in on weekends or nights, it is one area that once can see very high ($250k) salaries or more... facilities. I have seen "building engineers" making more than our college president every year.