Friday, October 4, 2013

"Stagehands Striking at Carnegie Hall Average More Than $419,000 Per Year"

Here is a full list of Carnegie Hall's highest paid employees, according to the non-profit's 990, with union stagehands in bold. (Believe it or not, these salaries are actually after pay cuts in recent years.)

2. Dennis O'Connell, Properties Manager: $464,632
3. James Csollany, Carpenter:$441,223
4. Richard Matlaga (Chief Financial Officer, not listed on Carnegie Hall's staff website): $429,259
5. John Cardinale, Electrician: $425,872
6. Aaron Levine, Chief Information Officer: $406,048
7. John Goodson, Electrician: $395,207
8. Ken Beltrone, Carpenter: $371,813
9. Anna Weber, General Manager, Artistic and Operations: $368,255
10. Susan Brady, Development Director: $317,110
11. Richard Malenka, Director: $315,277
12. Theodore E. Phillips, Director of Finance: $259,812

The Village Voice

26 comments:

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

That seems like a lot of money but those guys can carry a piano under each arm.

Michael Haz said...

How on earth can they make ends meet? Horrible, horrible.

The Dude said...

It's not easy out there for a pimp.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

If i were a carpenter i build a barrycade.

virgil xenophon said...

So much for the value of a college education..

Leland said...

Hey, it's good money if you can get it, but I think I'll not worry about spending my money at Carnegie Hall.

The Dude said...

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

ricpic said...

(In the thickest possible yiddish accent) "Prectice. Prectice."

bagoh20 said...

Are you freaking kidding me? It's irresponsible to pay non talent that much. If they just want to spend money, hire four people for each job.

ricpic said...

If I were a carpenter and you were a lady it would be a considerable social downgrade for me to move into your mortgaged to the hilt castle.

The Dude said...

I set 'em up, ricpic knocks 'em down.

But in this particular case, the correct answer is "Join a union".

AllenS said...

Carnegie Hall. Some place I'll never go.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

The musicians probably dont make that much.

rhhardin said...

I'm fine with them striking, no matter how much they make.

I'm just not fine with laws preventing offering their jobs to somebody else.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

They didn't dare report how much money goes to the guy in charge of the fire sprinklers.

bagoh20 said...

I'm willing to bet that those positions could be filled with equal or better individuals in each of those fields for a fraction of that cost, and the rest could be given to charity or used to lower ticket prices. Somebody got a problem with that?

Yes, unions.

Hagar said...

"Non-profit" does not mean you cannot profit; it only means you cannot issue stock and pay dividends.

virgil xenophon said...

Sportsfans, on the docks of New Orleans circa 1973 the illiterate long-shoreman's union rep who did nothing but provide ice water to the cargo handlers (even in winter--meaning he had NOTHING to do during those months) made 15,000/yr.

virgil xenophon said...

PS: I should add that the actual cargo-handlers were pulling down approx $70-80,000/yr at that time--not bad for people who were mostly HS drop-outs.

Leland said...

I'm just not fine with laws preventing offering their jobs to somebody else.

Obama agrees.

Amartel said...

I wonder if there's a union for the paid stooges like Chad Henderson who post progressive shit on social media? They're employees. (They would not qualify as 'independent contractors' at least under Cali law.) Shouldn't their working conditions and hours and wages and benefits and breaks and clothing etc. be regulated? In the name of Fairness and Social Justice? Bring on the collective bargaining and the grievance procedures!!

Methadras said...

Hell, I bet the toilet butler beats them all.

Methadras said...

bagoh20 said...

I'm willing to bet that those positions could be filled with equal or better individuals in each of those fields for a fraction of that cost, and the rest could be given to charity or used to lower ticket prices. Somebody got a problem with that?

Yes, unions.


You can't do that. Why that's just anti-communist.

ad hoc said...

I have heard that one of the reasons that concerts don't go long is that no one wants to pay the unions overtime.

Methadras said...

ad hoc said...

I have heard that one of the reasons that concerts don't go long is that no one wants to pay the unions overtime.


Holy shit, like that matters when you look at those salaries. lulz.

Chip S. said...

Based on the apparent ethnicity of those names, I'd say that Carnegie Hall is a bastion of white privilege.