Employees Who Earned More Than Their Organization’s Chief Executive

September 29, 2005 | Read Time: 4 minutes

2004 compensation

Columbia University (New York)

David N. Silvers, Clinical Professor of Dermatology

$3,721,741

Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Zev Rosenwaks, Professor of Medicine

2,744,000

New York University

James Grifo, Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology

2,588,000

Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York)

David Adams, Professor

2,026,165 ¹

University of Southern California (Los Angeles)

Peter Carroll, Head Football Coach

2,008,154 ²

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York)

Peter G. Cordeiro, Chief and Attending Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical Service

1,754,573

Stanford University (Calif.)

Frank Hanley, Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery

1,500,000

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

Louis Bucky, Physician

1,363,037

Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)

David F. Swensen, Chief Investment Officer

1,154,201

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington)

Leonard Slatkin, Music Director, National Symphony Orchestra

1,113,846

Washington University in St. Louis

K. Daniel Riew, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

1,093,170 ³

University of Boston

Richard Shemin, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery

1,092,393

University of Chicago

James L. Madara, Dean of the Biological Sciences

986,536

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (San Francisco)

Alice Ruth, Chief Investment Officer ^*

963,234 ⁴

The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)

Henry Brem, Professor of Neurosurgery

878,474

Princeton University (N.J.)

Andrew K. Golden, President of Princeton University Investment Company

832,030

Duke University (Durham, N.C.)

Mike Krzyzewski, Head Men’s Basketball Coach

800,000

Nemours Foundation (Jacksonville, Fla.)

Christian Pizarro, Physician

794,907

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles)

James Williams, Chief Investment Officer

769,400 ⁵

Ford Foundation (New York)

Linda Strumpf, Chief Investment Officer

768,169

Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)

Dipak C. Jain, Professor

754,986

Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati)

Richard Azizkhan, Surgeon in Chief, Pediatric Surgery

713,434

University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.)

Scott C. Malpass, Chief Investment Officer

702,614

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.)

Robert E. Swaney Jr., Vice President, Investments

701,669 ⁶

Rockefeller Foundation (New York)

Donna J. Dean, Treasurer

626,600 ⁷

San Francisco Opera Association

Donald Runnicles, Music Director

592,000

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center (Atlanta)

Robert Spano, Music Director

587,654

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.)

Laurance R. Hoagland Jr., Chief Investment Officer

578,005 ⁸

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)

Allan S. Bufferd, Treasurer

536,131

National Public Radio (Washington)

Robert Edwards, Senior Host ^*

477,576

American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis)

Larry E. Kun, Chairman, Radiological Oncology

473,496

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami)

Timothy Crowe, Vice President ^*

469,898

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)

Ashok Alexander, Director, Avahan

393,958

Shriners Hospitals for Children (Tampa, Fla.)

Peter F. Armstrong, Headquarters Director

377,759

Duke Endowment (Charlotte, N.C.)

Stephanie S. Lynch, Chief Investment Officer

377,000 ⁹

WNET/Educational Broadcasting Corporation (New York)

Thomas A. Conway, Vice President

343,326

American Friends of Bar-Ilan University (New York)

Yehuda Halevy, Executive Vice President

330,000

Robin Hood Foundation (New York)

Michael Weinstein, Director of Programs

303,768

American Diabetes Association (Alexandria, Va.)

Richard Kahn, Chief Scientific and Medical Officer

292,131

United Jewish Foundation and Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)

Mark Davidoff, Executive Director ^*

289,985

Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home (Boys Town, Neb.)

Jane E. Emanuel, Staff Otolaryngologist

277,975¹⁰

Liberty Fund (Indianapolis)

T. Alan Russell, Director

269,983

Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, Ala.)

Morris Dees, Chief Trial Counsel

258,379

National Wildlife Federation (Reston, Va.)

Lawrence J. Amon, Chief Operating Officer ^*

256,997 ¹¹

Nashville Symphony Association

Kenneth Schermerhorn, Music Director ^*

250,000

Special Olympics (Washington)

James Drake Turrentine, Chief Legal Officer

225,000

Paralyzed Veterans of America (Washington)

Delatorro L. McNeal, Executive Director

204,050

Menil Foundation (Houston)

William Taylor, Director, Planning and Advancement

201,458 ¹²

California Community Foundation (Los Angeles)

Martha Welborne, Project Director

200,000

Covenant House (New York)

James J. Harnett, Secretary

173,972

Packard Humanities Institute (Los Altos, Calif.)

T. William Melis, Chief Financial Officer

166,500 ¹³

Salvation Army (Alexandria, Va.)

______________, Director of Development1 ¹⁴

165,050 ¹⁵

Broad Art Foundation (Los Angeles)

Joanne Heyler, Curator

130,449

In Touch Ministries (Atlanta)

Donald O. Black, Chief Operating Officer

124,417

Focus on the Family (Colorado Springs)

Thomas R. Mason, Assistant Treasurer ^*

106,856

Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.)

Anthony J. Dispigno, Senior Vice President ^*

106,454

Jackson Hole Land Trust (Jackson Hole, Wyo.)

Carl T. Lindstrom, Attorney

91,317

Christian Aid Ministries (Berlin, Ohio)

Roman B. Mullet, Controller

44,629

Note: Figures are for fiscal 2004.
* No longer at organization.
1. Includes $1,776,074 in professional receipts.
2. Includes $163,923 in deferred compensation.
3. Includes $498,170 bonus.
4. Covers eight months’ compensation; Ms. Ruth left the organization in August 2004. Also includes $756,375 bonus.
5. Includes $65,000 bonus.
6. Includes $286,480 bonus.
7. Includes $229,776 bonus.
8. Includes $225,000 bonus.
9. Includes $115,000 bonus.
10. Includes $197,194 in professional fees.
11. Includes $25,000 bonus.
12. Includes $15,958 bonus.
13. Includes $1,500 bonus.
14. Organization declined to name development director and is a religious group exempt from filing a Form 990; therefore, name is not public record.
15. The director of development’s compensation includes $50 bonus.