Even though the 2006/07 season provided the average Regional Orchestra Players Association (ROPA) music director with reasonable improvements in compensation, there is no doubt that this group of stakeholders is well compensated for expected levels of commitment as compared to executive and musician stakeholders…
Year: 2009
2009 Compensation Report: ROPA Executives
If you were the CEO or executive director for a ROPA orchestra in the 2006/07 season, odds are you enjoyed a healthy increase in compensation. In fact, the average executive compensation (for those working a full season) increased at a rate three times greater than the percent increase in total expenditures while base musician compensation decreased by nearly five percent…
2009 Compensation Report: ICSOM Music Directors
Although the 2006/07 season didn’t bestow the average ICSOM music director with outlandish improvements in compensation, many of these stakeholders managed to set all time high compensation levels at his/her respective organization. Moreover, one conductor set a new record for the entire field with an annual compensation totaling nearly $3,000,000…
2009 Compensation Report: ICSOM Executives
If you were the CEO or Executive Director for an ICSOM orchestra in the 2006/07 season, odds are you enjoyed a sizeable increase in compensation. Not entirely unlike for profit executives in that period (but certainly not to the same degree), orchestra executive compensation skyrocketed during this time when most orchestras in the business had stabilized finances following the economic downturn following 9/11 (or so they thought). WHERE THE DATA COMES …
If You Listen, You Can Hear It Coming
It is almost June and that can only mean one thing at Adaptistration: the Orchestra Compensation Reports! This year’s reports feature all of the recompense goodness you’ve grown to love along with a few new twists. And no matter how hard you try, it just isn’t possible to separate timely revelations about Wall Street executive compensation practices from the orchestra figures awaiting us next week…