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Filing year 2024

AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY

Bethesda, Maryland·EIN 54-0683803·NTEE D330 · Animal-Related·3
Total revenue
$6.1M
Total assets
$7M
Total expenses
$5.5M
Reported officers
65
Mission

TO IMPROVE THE CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY OF FISHERY RESOURCES AND AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS BY ADVANCING FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCE AND PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FISHERIES PROFESSIONALS.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 6 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Executive Director Until Sept.
$230k
$244k
Base
$205k
Bonus
Other
$900
Benefits
$3k
Deputy Executive Dir.
key employee
$195k
$207k
Base
$162k
Bonus
$1k
Other
Benefits
$14k
Meetings Director
highest compensated employee
$133k
$141k
Publications Director
highest compensated employee
$132k
$140k
Director of Professional Development
$119k
$127k
Until Aug., Then Exe. Director
director (operational)
$83k
$88k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 59 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Animal-Related

Down 19%
from 2023

From $286k in 2023 to $230k in 2024.

$286k
2023
$230k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 22% in real terms$313k to $244k

Estimated with Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$3.6M
$3.9M
2023
$6.1M
$5.5M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Animal-Related executives earn

Comparable animal-related organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $48,500.

25th percentile
$20k
Median
$48,500
75th percentile
$93k
90th percentile
$159k

These are animal-related sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 877 organizations across 877 filings (2021 – 2023).

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