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Filing year 2023

Council on Governmental Relations

Washington, District of Columbia·EIN 52-1847000·NTEE V20Z · Social Science·3
Total revenue
$2.9M
Total assets
$3.4M
Total expenses
$2.9M
Reported officers
22

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 6 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefits
Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefitsExecutive compensation
$369k
$404k
Director Research Ethics & C
key employee
$292k
$320k
Dir Contr & Grants Admin
key employee
$272k
$299k
Dir Research Security & Ip M
key employee
$264k
$290k
VP & Dir Costing & Fin Comp
vice president
$255k
$279k
Asst Dir Member Eng & Poli
highest compensated employee
$175k
$192k

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 16 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Social Science

Up 3%
from 2022

From $357k in 2022 to $369k in 2023.

$357k
2022
$369k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Roughly flat in real terms$403k to $404k

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

Council on Governmental Relations reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$2.7M
$2.7M
2022
$2.9M
$2.9M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Social Science executives earn in District of Columbia

Comparable social science organizations in District of Columbia pay their highest-earning executive a median of $255,425.

25th percentile
$146k
Median
$255,425
75th percentile
$396k
90th percentile
$601k

These are social science sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 60 organizations across 60 filings (2022 – 2024).

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