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Filing year 2023

ILLINI MEDIA COMPANY

Champaign, Illinois·EIN 37-0341210·NTEE B400 · Education·3
Total revenue
$726k
Total assets
$896k
Total expenses
$820k
Reported officers
10
Mission

ILLINI MEDIA IS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING AN UNSURPASSED EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ITS STUDENT EMPLOYEES AND TO KEEPING THIS MISSION AT THE FOREFRONT OF ALL OUR INTERNAL DECISION-MAKING. OUR WELL-RUN, SUCCESSFUL COMPANY ALLOWS US TO OFFER A PROFESSIONAL, HANDS-ON, STUDENT-RUN LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, AND TO PROVIDE HIGH-QUALITY COMMUNICATION VEHICLES FOR READERS, LISTENERS AND VIEWERS THROUGHOUT OUR CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY.BY OFFERING COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING, PROVIDING CURRENT TOOLS AND RESOURCES, AND CREATING A CHALLENGING, FAST-PACED ENVIRONMENT, ILLINI MEDIA HELPS CREATE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER JOURNALISTS, BROADCASTERS, AND MANAGERS. WHILE OUR STUDENTS LEAD OUR DAILY MEDIA OPERATIONS, THEY LEARN THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAKING INDEPENDENT DECISIONS AND GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT FOR CHERISHED FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION PRINCIPLES AND ETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 2 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

General Manager
officer (unspecified)
$108k
$119k
Executive Director/ceo
director (operational)
$34k
$38k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

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

Plus 8 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Education

Up 36%
from 2022

From $79k in 2022 to $108k in 2023.

$79k
2022
$108k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 31% in real terms$91k to $119k

Estimated with BLS CPI-U for the Midwest 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

ILLINI MEDIA COMPANY reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$739k
$803k
2022
$726k
$820k
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 $79,978.

25th percentile
$25k
Median
$79,978
75th percentile
$195k
90th percentile
$368k

These are education sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 362 organizations across 362 filings (2021 – 2023).

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