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High-earning conductors
Many of America’s highest-compensated conductors earned into the millions in 2011, according to their organizations’ most recent federal tax returns.
$2.17 million
$2.03 million
$1.93 million
$1.64 million
$1.52 million
$1.43 million
$1.34 million
$1.18 million
$884,000
$2.17 million
Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony
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$2.03 million
Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony
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$1.93 million
Christoph Eschenbach, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
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$1.64 million
Charles Dutoit, Philadelphia Orchestra
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$1.52 million
James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, New York
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$1.43 million
Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic
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Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times |
$1.34 million
Alan Gilbert, New York Philharmonic
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$1.18 million
James Conlon, Los Angeles Opera
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