Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

Compensation Reports

Who Else Doesn’t Like To Wait?

Fri, May 5, 2010
The good news is you don’t have to wait until June 7 for the 2010 Orchestra Compensation Reports; they’re available right now at Adaptistration Premium. The great news is the new and improved data management tables that were designed especially for the compensation info are in place and fully operational. There is no bad news.

Tasty Transparency Treats

Tue, May 5, 2010
The 2010 Orchestra Compensation Reports are only two weeks away but that doesn’t mean you can’t get in on some of the data goodies ahead of time. Following in the successful footsteps of the 2009 Orchestra Website Report pre-publication tweets, I’ll be tweeting an ongoing string of compensation review tidbits along with a number of

I’ll Have What Mortier’s Having

Fri, May 5, 2010
Did you catch the 5/20/2010 edition of Bloomberg where Phillip Boroff reported that the New York City Opera paid Gerard Mortier a $335,000 severance package even though he never took over as the full time General Manager? Moreover, Boroff reports that Mortier regularly flew first-class on Air France for City Opera business. Granted, Mortier certainly

An Updated Look At Top-Tier Musician Compensation

Mon, Jan 1, 2010
With all the news surrounding Cleveland Orchestra’s ongoing labor negotiations, it made sense to revise and double check the base musician compensation figures for the highest budget ensembles. As it turned out, the Cleveland Plain Dealer requested exactly that for an article they published on 1/6/2010 so the timing worked out nicely. As a result

2009 Compensation Report: Concertmasters

Fri, Jun 6, 2009
If you were a concertmaster in the 2006/07 season, odds are you enjoyed a sizeable increase in annual compensation. In fact, the average concertmaster noticed the largest percent increase in compensation since the 2001/02 season…
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