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Controller compensation

Head of accounting operations and financial reporting. Reported total compensation from IRS Form 990 filings — too few public postings exist for this role to publish posted-range statistics.

Based on 30 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
$146,244
Median total comp
$174,916
75th percentile
$214,630

Actual compensation (IRS Form 990)

$10M-$20M$168,8808 employees
$20M-$50M$175,2127 employees
$50M-$100M$172,2166 employees
$100M+$216,8687 employees
Not shown (fewer than 5 postings): $2M-$10M (2).   Reported compensation of incumbents from the most recent Form 990 filings — actual pay, not posted ranges.
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Figures reflect 30 executive compensation records from IRS Form 990 filings by Southern California nonprofits (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer). Medians are published only at 10+ records; no group below 5 is shown. Slugs, canonical URLs, and structured data are stable across rebuilds.