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High-earning arts executives

Many of America’s highest-compensated art executives earned into the millions in 2010, according to their organizations’ most recent federal tax returns.

The Los Angeles Times compiled their earnings from 2010-11 nonprofit tax returns.

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$1.77 million
$1.60 million
$1.56 million
$1.40 million
$1.379 million
$1.377 million
$1.35 million
$1.21 million*
$1.09 million**

$1.77 million

Reynold Levy, Lincoln Center (NYC)

$1.60 million

Deborah Borda, Los Angeles Philharmonic

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$1.56 million

Glen Lowry, Museum of Modern Art (NYC)

$1.40 million

Placido Domingo, Los Angeles Opera

Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times

$1.379 million

Peter Gelb, Metropolitan Opera (NYC)

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$1.377 million

Michael Kaiser, Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.)

$1.35 million

Michael Govan, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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$1.21 million*

James Williams, J. Paul Getty Trust

$1.09 million**

James Cuno, J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles)

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