Money 2010

In this era of economic anxiety, the question of how your paycheck stacks up looms larger than ever. A shameless accounting of who’s making what — and how they’re spending it.

By Geoffrey Gagnon and Jason Schwartz | Boston Magazine |

Health & Medicine

Elaine Ullian, president and CEO, Boston Medical Center: $1.5 million

Registered nurse, Massachusetts Department of Public Health: $64,795

James Mandell,CEO, Children’s Hospital: $1.4 million

Paul Levy, president, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: $946,535

Sales rep, biotech company: $120,000–$140,000

Gary Gottlieb, president, Brighamand Women’s Hospital: $1.2 million

Physical therapist,Core Medical Group: $60,000–$100,000

Edward Benz, president and CEO, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: $848,802

Ellen Zane, president and CEO, Tufts Medical Center: $1.9 million

Anthony Whittemore, chief medical officer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital: $721,095

Russell Phillips, chief, division of general internal medicine and primary care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: $288,423

David DeMaso, chief, department of psychiatry, Children’s Hospital: $317,746

Richard Meelia, chairman, president, and CEO, Covidien: $1.1 million

Gregory Antoine, chief, department of plastic and reconstructive surgery, Boston Medical Center: $471,078

Lab tech, Cambridge biotechcompany: $47,000

Arts & Culture
James Levine, music director, Boston Symphony Orchestra: $1.7 million

Sound engineer, music club: $16/hour

Keith Lockhart, conductor,Boston Pops: $752,036

Timothy Genis, timpanist, Boston Symphony Orchestra: $225,303

Booking agent, music club: $32,000–$35,000

Mikko P. Nissinen, artistic director, Boston Ballet: $321,623

Gisele Bündchen, model: $25 million

Malcolm A. Rogers, director,Museum of Fine Arts: $591,592

Jill Medvedow, director, Institute of Contemporary Art: $350,000

John Dayton, director of animalhusbandry, New England Aquarium: $104,647

Ioannis N. Miaoulis, president and director, Museum of Science: $377,744

Doris Drummond,CFO, Kennedy Library Foundation: $141,047

Steve Anderson, director of operations, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: $96,000

Reporter, Boston Herald (five years’ experience): $58,248

Reporter, Boston Globe (five years’ experience): $64,912

  • Joseph

    I’m trying to figure out where the $150,000 figure for ‘Boston Police Officer’ came from in your recent Salary Survey. I’ve been with the BPD for over 4 years now and haven’t even come close to that figure. Sure, a Boston Police Officer does have an opportunity to work details or overtime shifts but there are times when those shifts are ordered on Officers’ days off (e.g. Holidays, festivals, sports championship parades, etc.) when the Officer would much rather be spending time with their family. Nonetheless, the starting base salary for an Officer is in the mid-fifties and an Officer with three years will earn just under 70K a year… For that same officer to earn the 150K you report, he/she would have to work the equivalent of over 300 eight-hour road details over the course of a year which would further equate to over 40 additional hours per week. Our salary is public knowledge, so don’t get me wrong, there are Officers who have earned additional income to provide for their famili

  • Joseph

    Our salary is public
    knowledge, so don’t get me wrong, there are Officers who have earned additional income to provide for their families, but to report it as if its
    commonplace perpetuates the animosity the media and public have for the
    hard working men and women of our fine city.