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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.

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$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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