Employees Who Earned More Than Their Organization’s Chief Executive

September 23, 1999 | Read Time: 3 minutes

ALSO SEE:

Results of The Chronicle’s survey of salaries of top executives at non-profit organizations and foundations presented in a series of charts, and links to related articles.

	Employee	1998 Compensation
Cornell University	Wayne Isom, Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery	$1,731,922
Columbia University	Eric Allen Rose, Professor, Surgery	$1,475,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	David Hidalgo, Chief Associate Attending Surgeon	$1,268,806
University of Pennsylvania	William N. Kelley, Chief Executive Officer, University of Pennsylvania Hospital System	$1,204,508
New York University	James Grifo, Professor, Reproductive Endocrinology	$1,092,495
Stanford University	Edward Stinson, Professor, Stanford Medical Center*	$1,022,260
Rush-Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center	Donald R. Oder, Vice-President	$998,388
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	Rod J. Rohrich, Chairman, Department of Plastic Surgery	$968,892
Mayo Foundation	Hamlet A. Peterson, Pediatrician	$869,979
Yale University	Gary S. Kopf, Clinical Professor	$835,003

	Employee	1998 Compensation
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts	Leonard Slatkin, Music Director, National Symphony Orchestra	$829,916
University of Miami	Barth Green, Professor and Chairman	$790,873
University of Southern California	John Robinson, Football Coach*	$750,000
University of Chicago	Glenn D. Steele, Vice-President for Medical Affairs	$722,692
Washington University	Jay S. Pepose, Professor, Ophthalmology	$665,000
Johns Hopkins University	Walter J. Stark, Professor of Ophthalmology	$659,702
Ford Foundation	Linda Strumpf, Chief Investment Officer	$605,258
Rockefeller Foundation	Rosalie Wolf, Treasurer	$594,779
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation	Robert E. Swaney, Jr., Vice-President, Investments	$462,260
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	Raymond Sawaya, Department Chair, Neurosurgery	$450,000
	Employee	1998 Compensation
Chicago Symphony Orchestra	Daniel Barenboim, Music Director	$445,166
Northwestern University	Gary L. Barnett, Football Coach*	$411,574
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Allan S. Bufferd, Deputy Treasurer	$403,820
Duke University	Mike Krzyzewski, Basketball Coach	$390,000
Emory University	Stewart Wright Caughman, Chairman of Dermatology Department	$382,594
University of California at San Francisco Stanford Health Care	Lawrence J. Furnstahl, Chief Financial Officer	$377,841
ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital	Stephen J. Shochat, Chairman, Surgery Department	$355,416
Harvard University	Joseph B. Martin, Dean of the Medical School	$325,001
Trinity Christian Center (Trinity Broadcasting Network)	Janice W. Crouch, Vice-President	$321,375
Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home	Jane E. Emanuel, Staff Otolaryngologist	$278,592
	Employee	1998 Compensation
WNET/Educational Broadcasting Corporation	George Page, Director of Science Programming	$265,563
American Red Cross	Brian McDonough, Chief Operations Officer, Blood Services	$258,014
WTTW/Window to the World Communications	Robert Mauro, Executive Vice-President*	$249,795
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum**	Peter Hassrick, Director*	$232,731
Project Hope/People-to-People Health Foundation	Timothy R. Townsend, Chief Medical Officer	$214,350
Girl Scouts of the USA	Joel Becker, Deputy National Executive Director	$212,004
Duke Endowment	John G. Mebane, Jr., Chief Investment Officer	$210,000
Public Broadcasting Service	Paula Jameson, Senior Vice-President*	$205,568
National Audubon Society	James H. Fishman, Publisher	$202,602
Paralyzed Veterans of America	Gordon Mansfield, Executive Director	$200,752
	Employee	1998 Compensation
National Public Radio	Robert Edwards, Senior Host	$172,600
New York City Ballet	Arnold Goldberg, Orchestra Manager	$168,000
AmeriCares Foundation	Andrew L. Hannah, Chief Operating Officer	$165,200
United Cerebral Palsy Associations	Paul T. Burke, Associate Director	$151,073
Institute of International Education	David D. Arnold, Executive Vice-President	$149,000
SETI Institute	Thomas Pierson, Executive Director	$137,000
Jewish Communal Fund	S. Allan Dubow, Vice-President, Finance and Administration	$135,908
World Vision	John Jemelian, Senior Vice-President*	$122,601
Trust for Public Land	Robert McIntyre, Senior Vice-President	$114,741
In Touch Ministries	Thomas Rogeberg, Executive Vice-President	$104,524
	Employee	1998 Compensation
Focus on the Family	Michael Trout, Broadcasting Senior Vice-President	$103,447
Maryland Public Broadcasting Foundation	Joy Hare, Fund Raiser	$99,726
Prison Fellowship Ministries	Thomas Pratt, President	$97,000
Tides Foundation	Idelisse Malave, Executive Director	$93,540
Omaha Community Foundation	W. Earl Taylor, Director of Special Services	$85,661
Lions Clubs International Foundation	Patricia O’Kelley, Division Manager*	$83,610
St. Joseph’s Indian School and Missions	Kory Christianson, Director of Development	$64,801
National Heritage Foundation	Julie Houk, Vice-President	$56,346
Habitat For Humanity International	David Williams, Senior Vice-President	$37,394

* No longer at organization.

** Figure is for fiscal 1997.

Note: Includes the highest-paid employees at organizations where the chief executive officer did not have the highest salary. Figures are for fiscal 1998 unless otherwise noted.