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Filing year 2023

Merola Opera Program

San Francisco, California·EIN 94-6084831·NTEE A6A0 · Arts, Culture & Humanities·3
Total revenue
$7.8M
Total assets
$45.6M
Total expenses
$4M
Reported officers
35
Mission

Merola Opera Program is a San Francisco-based training program for opera singers, pianists, and stage directors.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 4 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

Exec Director
director (operational)
$185k
$201k
Base
$166k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$10k
Dir of Finance
officer (unspecified)
$157k
$171k
Base
$134k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$16k
Dir of Advancement
unclassified
$148k
$161k
Exec Director
director (operational)
$27k
$29k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 31 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Arts, Culture & Humanities

Down 5%
from 2022

From $193k in 2022 to $185k in 2023.

$193k
2022
$185k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 8% in real terms$218k to $201k

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 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

Merola Opera Program reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$5.3M
$3.8M
2022
$7.8M
$4M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Arts, Culture & Humanities executives earn in California

Comparable arts, culture & humanities organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $66,860.

25th percentile
$28k
Median
$66,860
75th percentile
$120k
90th percentile
$221k

These are arts, culture & humanities sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 630 organizations across 630 filings (2021 – 2023).

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