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Filing year 2023

Benedictine University

Lisle, Illinois·EIN 36-2722198·NTEE B430 · Education·3
Total revenue
$88.5M
Total assets
$161.4M
Total expenses
$90.6M
Reported officers
35
Mission

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the principles of wisdom in the Rule of St. Benedict.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 10 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefits
Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefitsExecutive compensation
President (through 8/2023); Advisor to the President (as of 8/2023)
$414k
$459k
Provost/chief Academic Officer (through 9/2023)
key employee
$330k
$365k
Professor
highest compensated employee
$215k
$238k
Dean
highest compensated employee
$192k
$213k
Dean
highest compensated employee
$190k
$210k
Professor
highest compensated employee
$188k
$208k
Professor
highest compensated employee
$187k
$207k
Interim CFO Until 5/31/2021
former officer/director/trustee
$176k
$194k
President (as of 8/2023)
$173k
$192k
Interim CFO (through 1/2024)
$151k
$167k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 25 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Education

Down 11%
from 2022

From $464k in 2022 to $414k in 2023.

$464k
2022
$414k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 14% in real terms$532k to $459k

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI 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

Benedictine University reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$96.1M
$97.5M
2022
$88.5M
$90.6M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Education executives earn in Illinois

Comparable education organizations in Illinois pay their highest-earning executive a median of $78,409.

25th percentile
$28k
Median
$78,409
75th percentile
$173k
90th percentile
$307k

These are education sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 877 organizations across 877 filings (2021 – 2024).

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