The Herald has some fun today with executive salaries at area non-profits, including local arts institutions, many of which have been having money troubles of late, imposing hiring freezes, etc. Read the Herald's package, and you might think about giving your money to some local group that doesn't even have an executive director making six figures. (How do they get by?)
Given all the ink the Globe has devoted to the Citi Performing Arts Center in recent years, the money the boss makes is not exactly news, but it's still eye-opening to read that executive director Joe Spaulding took home more than $1.6 million in 2007. Those are the kind of numbers that'll make a Rockette high-kick, if you know what I mean. That's roughly three times what the director of the MFA made, ten times what the director of the Pine Street Inn made. There may be some one-time bump here; Spaulding made just over $400K the year before. But Citi Center didn't return the Herald's calls to explain. I sure hope all the board members who approved that $$$$ got a really nice Christmas present, though. Fruitcake's definitely not going to cut it.
(Given this item and several that precede it, I am inaugurating a new blog category today: Funding.)
And what is the Wang Center getting for all that money? The place seems to be barely operating at all. When I walked in there three months ago to ask for a 2008-09 season brochure, they hadn't published any. They didn't even have a season schedule on the wall for me to look at.
Posted by: Ron Newman | December 26, 2008 at 11:10 AM