No taxpayer would ever agree to pay these salaries to government employees
The Kennedy Center is funded by US Taxpayers. Here’s a breakdown of how much their government employees are making
- Ms Deborah F Rutter (President): $1,376,401
- Ms Barbara A Polk (Chief Administrative Officer): $504,856
- Ms Lynne H Pratt (CFO): $433,702
- Ms Nurit Bar Josef (NSO Concertmaster): $422,692
- Ms Leslie J Miller (Sr VP, Development): $419,253
- Mr Gary Ginstling (Executive Director, NSO): $401,437
- Mr Kevin F Gigliuto (Sr VP, Marketing & Sales): $401,242
- Mr Timothy O’leary (General Director, WNO): $381,563
- Mr Ying Fu (NSO Associate Concertmaster): $296,241
- Mr Robert Van Leer (Sr VP, Artistic Planning): $285,099
- Mr Ellery J Brown (Sr VP, Operations): $275,901
- Mr Mark M Cohee (Head Electrician, Opera House): $255,306
- Mr Jeffry A Finn (VP, Theater Programming): $254,088
- Ms Eileen T Andrews (VP, Public Relations): $248,708
- Mr Glenn A Turner (VP, Production): $227,909
- Ms Stacey B Johnson (Chief Financial Officer): $217,777
- Ms Aswathi Zachariah (General Counsel): $213,357
This is all per year.