Manager Earned $408,000, Conductor $327,000 at N.Y. Opera
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New York City Opera, which says it’s leaving its Lincoln Center home to save money, paid George Steel, general manager and artistic director, $407,560 in salary and benefits for 11 months of work in 2009.
Steel took over the struggling company on Feb. 2, 2009. His compensation was disclosed in City Opera’s 2009-2010 tax return, which said the pay is “based on consideration of comparative data from similarly structured organizations and budgetary analysis.”