For the second year in a row, the average Music Director of an ICSOM ensemble experienced the smallest real average percent increase when compared to the other stakeholder groups. Granted, those figures continue to be skewed a bit since several of the larger budget orchestras did not have a full time music director during the 2007/08 season, but it stands in stark contrast to executive gains in the same season…
Series: Orchestra Compensation Reports
2010 Compensation Reports: ICSOM Executives
If you were the CEO or Executive Director for an ICSOM orchestra in the 2007/08 season, odds are you enjoyed the largest single increase in compensation in recent history. Taken in context, the 2007/08 season was the height of the economic bubble and clearly, most orchestra executives didn’t miss out on the benefits associated with the rise of the executive class…
2009 Compensation Report: Concertmasters
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…
2009 Compensation Report: ROPA Music Directors
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…
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…