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Filing year 2024

AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Great Barrington, Massachusetts·EIN 04-2121305·NTEE V220 · Social Science·3
Total revenue
$5.1M
Total assets
$199.2M
Total expenses
$8.7M
Reported officers
23
Mission

AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH (AIER) EDUCATES PEOPLE ON THE VALUE OF PERSONAL FREEDOM, FREE ENTERPRISE, PROPERTY RIGHTS, LIMITED GOVERNMENT AND SOUND MONEY. AIER'S ONGOING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DEMONSTRATES THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE PRINCIPLES IN ADVANCING PEACE, PROSPERITY AND HUMAN PROGRESS.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 7 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefits
Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefitsExecutive compensation
$586k
$633k
Vice President, Finance
vice president
$288k
$311k
Senior Research Faculty
highest compensated employee
$270k
$291k
Senior Research Fellow
highest compensated employee
$165k
$178k
Assistant Comptroller
highest compensated employee
$160k
$173k
Director of Data & Technology
highest compensated employee
$158k
$170k
Director of Education & Senior Research Fellow
highest compensated employee
$157k
$169k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with BLS CPI-U for the Northeast region, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 16 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Social Science

Up 6%
from 2023

From $552k in 2023 to $586k in 2024.

$552k
2023
$586k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 3% in real terms$616k to $633k

Estimated with BLS CPI-U for the Northeast region, 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 INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$4.8M
$9.3M
2023
$5.1M
$8.7M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Social Science executives earn

Comparable social science organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $120,010.

25th percentile
$55k
Median
$120,010
75th percentile
$208k
90th percentile
$415k

These are social science sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 409 organizations across 409 filings (2021 – 2024).

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