http://mpetrelis. blogspot.com/2007/03/nprs-300000-plus-hosts-according-to-irs.html


The last time I looked at the salaries of NPR hosts and executives, as listed on the radio news outlet's IRS 990 forms, was back in November 2004.

Sure, the compensation packages and salaries were very generous, and I'm not the least bit surprised the NPR folks have increased their pay.

Although seeing rather enormous salaries and packages in the nonprofit news radio world gives me reason to consider how high the compensation must be at for-profit private radio news stations.

Here are the figures from the latest IRS 990 form for National Public Radio, FY 2005, just for the top five on-air hosts:

Renee Montagne Compensation: $308,374 Contributions to benefit plan: $30,640

Steve Inskeep Compensation: $301,856 Contributions to benefit plan: $35,572

Robert Siegel Compensation: $288,795 Contribution to benefit plan: $24,480

Scott Simon Compensation: $266,821 Contribution to benefit plan: $33,572

Alexander Chadwick Compensation: $235,173 Contribution to benefit plan: $29,564

Comparable information for the executives of NPR is also presented in the IRS return and is similarly high, which you can read by clicking here.


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Not for nothing but 300,000 per disck jockey come on..... These are public funds and they seem to be some of the highest paid government workers

Gix, isn't National Public Broadcasting contribution supported?

I send checks to both radio and TV.

I think, with Bush in the White House, any gov. funding is way low.

Personal integrity is hard to find.

I, like many others, quit sending pledges to them long ago when they became an arm of the DNC.

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Great point marmalade, you can continue to support them, that is your right. Makes me wonder what Air America couldn't make it if NPR is doing so well.

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An informed voter scares the Goverment lackeys.

An American first and always a Conservative.

because the same folks who were listining to NPR where listining to Air America

Hey, they live in NYC. Everybody makes 300K or more there. It's about the equivalent of 60K in the rurals. Though I'm totally in favor of seeing NPR hosts making only 30K. They are just talking puppets. I guess they have to hire them at that cost or else they'd go commercial and start making 3M a year.

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03/04/07 "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

02/25/07 "There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action." ~ Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

Anyone that tries to compare NPR to Air America or leftwing AM radio, either has their head stuck so far up the left/right paradigm (gix) or simply is simply to stupid to know fair and balanced if it hit them in the face.

My parents are old school dutch business/banker types. IE; VERY conservative. and yet, I grew up listening to NPR because that's what they listened to. Further, most NPR stations play classical in the evening... very conservative.

Still, even if it is left leaning, I have never known them to intentionally mislead the audience on any story. Unlike the schlock jocks on the left who make millions a year, and are completely useless. AM radio could easily be called provocateurs... same for Air America. NPR doesn't and never has fit that description. $300,000 for some of the best reporting anywhere... it's a bargain.

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Classical music may be conservitive in Dutchworld and Euroworld.. but in america Conservative is good old fashioned rock and role and country.

Anyway yes NPR and even PBS are left wing media outlets.... that is a fact my friend.

And your argument of AM and FM host making more lets not foeget all these other station are for profit..... Npr is funded by you and me and i really dont think that money should be used to pursue a politicle agenda.... wether it be right or left or center or purple or yellow etc.

I used to think that but after the firing of Edwards and shows like the business report and motley fools I started wondering. When they had a commentary about how great America is because it only has a two party system I realized they had changed. They just bend with the wind and for the last 6 years they've been disgustingly right wing.

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03/04/07 "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

02/25/07 "There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action." ~ Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

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