Series: Orchestra Compensation Reports

2015 Orchestra Compensation Reports: The Big Picture

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2015 Compensation Reports The Big Picture

Too Much Information! For the past few years, one of the most popular items in the orchestra compensation reports is a big picture overview of all compensation alongside Total Expenditure figures and it seems that adding more orchestras in this year’s reports tripped the threshold for how much info the responsive charts could process (those are the nice info tables that rearrange everything into single columns on smaller devices, like Smartphones, …

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2015 Orchestra Compensation Reports: Concertmasters

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2015 Compensation Reports Concertmasters

For the second season in a row, the average concertmaster experienced a decline in compensation, although that statistic is a bit misleading thanks to an unusual spike in the 2010/11 season for a single concertmaster with record setting compensation. When that figure is filtered out the equation, average concertmaster compensation had a small increase from 2010/11 to 2011/12 then a 2.69 percent drop from 2011/12 to 2012/13. Otherwise, the 2012/13 season …

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2015 Orchestra Compensation Reports: Music Directors

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For the average music director, the 2012/13 season was a good year financially; although a few high profile positions remained vacant that season, such as Boston and Philadelphia, brought the average increase lower than it would have been otherwise, most music directors saw their earnings increase by 3.43 percent. The Information In order to provide information that is as accurate as possible, info from the 2012/13 season is gathered from the following sources: …

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2015 Orchestra Compensation Reports: Executives

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2015 Compensation Reports Executives

The 2012/13 season continued the overall field-wide trend of heated labor disputes; the Minnesota Orchestra went dark for the entire season while the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra lost most of their season and the Indianapolis Symphony had a shorter, but equally bitter, shutdown. When combined with a higher than normal number of partial year compensation entries among the higher budget orchestras, expanded efforts become necessary in order to process data that …

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2015 Orchestra Compensation Reports: Introduction

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2015 Compensation Reports Introduction

As is the case with every annual orchestra compensation report, the most important element to keep in mind is these figures encompass the 2012/13 season. Although it isn’t unusual to expect that the most recent figures available would cover the previous season, in this case 2013/14, that’s not how things work thanks to a few key elements: Most professional orchestras maintain a fiscal year structure that begins and ends at some …

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