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Chief Operating Officer compensation

Second-in-command over internal operations. Reported total compensation from IRS Form 990 filings — too few public postings exist for this role to publish posted-range statistics.

Based on 104 IRS Form 990 records✓ Reported actual pay, not posted rangesToo few postings for posted-range stats
nis the number of individual job postings a figure is calculated from. The more postings behind a number, the more you can trust it. We never publish anything based on fewer than 5.
25th percentile
$166,974
Median total comp
$204,474
75th percentile
$266,479

Actual compensation (IRS Form 990)

$2M-$10M$180,32519 employees
$10M-$20M$183,69224 employees
$20M-$50M$204,61226 employees
$50M-$100M$260,82615 employees
$100M+$343,76119 employees
Not shown (fewer than 5 postings): <$2M (1).   Reported compensation of incumbents from the most recent Form 990 filings — actual pay, not posted ranges.
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