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High-earning conductors
Many of America’s highest-compensated conductors 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.
$2.41 million
$2.06 million*
$1.21 million*
$1.56 million
$1.47 million
$993,696
$985,363
$958,597
$2.41 million
Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony
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$2.06 million*
James Levine, Metropolitan Opera
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$1.21 million*
James Levine, Boston Symphony
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$1.56 million
Alan Gilbert, New York Philharmonic
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$1.47 million
Charles Dutoit, Philadelphia Orchestra
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$993,696
James Conlon, Los Angeles Opera
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$985,363
Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic
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$958,597
Franz Welser-Most, Cleveland Orchestra
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