Salaries of Nonprofit Theater Leaders Often Exceed $100,000
October 28, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
Many nonprofit theater companies pay their directors annual salaries of $100,000 or more, reports Bloomberg.com.
Theater employees and board members say such salaries are necessary, given the complexity of managing their operations, the news service says.
Yet six-figure compensation, no matter how comparatively modest, can still rankle donors. “Contributors are clear that when they see salaries over $200,000, they freak out,” said Ken Berger, president of Charity Navigator, in Mahwah, N.J., which rates nonprofit groups on their growth and efficiency. “They associate charity with a vow of poverty.”
To learn more about the salaries made by chief executives of nonprofit organizations, see The Chronicle’s most recent annual compensation study.
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