I went to Guidestar.org and found this 990 form filed for 2013, which listed salaries as follows:
Roanna Shorofsky (head of school): ~$2,142,000
Charles Levy (CFO): ~$409,000
Carol Weintraub: ~$384,000
Linda Holof-Saposh: ~$303,000
Dina Bray: ~$204,000
Lon D. Skop: ~$300,000
Livia Ahuva Alberstam: ~$350,000
Richard Wisnewski: ~$265,000
The 2012 filing indicated Roanna Shorofsky made about $600,000. The 2011 filing said she made $557,229.
Is there any other head of a Jewish day school who makes more than two million in a year? Not even Rabbi Marvin Hier does this well. Who says you can’t make good and do good at the same time?
I hope she goes on a speaking tour emphasizing the material rewards in addition to the spiritual ones in giving one’s life to Jewish education.
I wonder what kind of retirement package Moshe Rabbenu got?
It is important for Jews to respect their leaders and Jews can’t respect anyone who makes less than $500,000 a year.
Sascha writes: Interesting. But I suspect that the major bump for Roanna Sharofsky was part of a succession and retirement package: she retired at the end of the last school year. So much as Philippe de Montebello and others in similarly long-term positions got an incentive package to stay on and help with transition, that is probably the case here. I could be wrong, but I don’t think Roanna’s successor is making $2.1 mil/year.
I’m not arguing the validity of the $550, though I think one can. (She completed a major capital campaign, got two new buildings built and consolidated the three parts of the school onto a single campus in real-estate-intense NYC, not to mention successfully launching the high school, which did not exist as part of the original school…) But the $2.1 number does have a context to it and I think that’s important to understand.
Luke: Look at all these folks who head major Jewish organizations but don’t seek to cash in from their service:
On the other end of the spectrum are the Jewish executives who, according to the Forward analysis, should be getting much more.
Jennifer Gorovitz, 48, was the first woman to head a large Jewish federation, and today she remains the only one. But breaking the glass ceiling as CEO of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco did not translate into an income equal to that of male federation leaders. Earning $311,000 for overseeing 117 employees and $134 million in expenses, Gorovitz is underpaid by 38% compared with the predicted salary in the Wharton analysis…
Robert Wexler, 62, has been serving as president of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles since 1992. The non-sectarian Jewish higher education institute runs a budget of $25 million and employs 728 faculty and administrative staff members, but pays its top executive a lower salary than expected. With $225,560 in 2012, Wexler’s salary is lower by 36% than the predicted salary.
Also on the list of underpaid Jewish executives is Scott Kaufman, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Detroit. Kaufman, 47, was a real estate developer and a lay leader in the Jewish community before joining the federation. The federation spent $43 million in 2012 to provide services for the Jewish community of 80,000 in the city and its surrounding suburbs. Kaufman’s salary of $254,042 for running the organization represents a 36% underpay compared to the prediction.
