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Top 10 Highest-Paid CEOs at Nonprofits 2024

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By Jason Urbaniec

Nonprofit organizations operate under a distinct set of principles compared to for-profit organizations. They exist to serve a public or mutual benefit, and their financial resources often come from donations, grants, and other forms of charitable funding. This mission-driven nature impacts every aspect of their operations, including executive compensation.

Executive pay at nonprofits can be a controversial topic. Some believe nonprofit executives should be paid minimally to keep overhead costs low and allocate more resources for the nonprofit’s mission. Others recognize the difficulties of maintaining adequate staffing and attracting the necessary top talent to keep the organization running effectively and efficiently. In either case, CEOs tend to be the highest-paid executives at any organization.

Below is a list of the Top 10 highestpaid CEOs at nonprofits for the most recent complete form year (2022). 

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It should be noted that salaries in the high millions for CEOs are not the norm, with typically only the largest of organizations paying executives in that vicinity. The average nonprofit CEO salary for the year was much lower, coming in at $152,119. 

Of interest in this list is the high percentage of health care and health-related organizations represented here. ERI wrote a white paper analyzing CEO pay at nonprofits, which found health care to be one of the highest paying nonprofit industries as a whole. All this compensation information and more can be found in ERI’s Nonprofit Comparables Assessor.

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Detailed nonprofit executive compensation data, including historic data and links to source documents can be found in ERI’s Nonprofit Comparables Assessor.


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ERI Economic Research Institute was founded over 30 years ago to provide compensation applications for private and public organizations. ERI compiles the most robust salary, cost of living, and executive compensation survey data available, with updated market data for more than 1,100 industry sectors. ERI collects salary survey data from internal surveys, third-party salary surveys, and public sources to calculate geographic salary differentials and assist with compensation planning.