The use of "for example" also is highly misleading.  Peter is one of the individuals that receives more than his salary, true.  But the percentage by which he exceeds his salary is at the top of that list.  Thus, instead of "Semi-retired biochemistry professor Peter von Hipple, for example, gets PERS payments annually of $255,832, which is 207 percent of his former full-time working salary, according to state records,"  it should be "at the top of that group of faculty is semi-retired biochemistry professor Peter von Hipple ...."