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Filing year 2023

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC

Cambridge, Massachusetts·EIN 13-1641075·NTEE V220 · Social Science·3
Total revenue
$61M
Total assets
$189.6M
Total expenses
$38.4M
Reported officers
78
Mission

THE NBER CONDUCTS UNBIASED, NON-PARTISAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATES THE FINDINGS OF THAT RESEARCH TO ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS, POLICY-MAKERS, AND BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 11 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefits
Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefitsExecutive compensation
$925k
$1M
Dir of Information Systems
key employee
$378k
$417k
Corp Sec & Dir of Grants
officer (unspecified)
$373k
$411k
Asst Corp Sec & Controller
officer (unspecified)
$340k
$374k
Unix System Administrator
highest compensated employee
$321k
$354k
Conference Dept Director
key employee
$316k
$348k
Asst Dir of Accounting
highest compensated employee
$267k
$294k
Aging Program Specialist
highest compensated employee
$263k
$289k
Programmer & Sys Admin
highest compensated employee
$244k
$269k
Webmaster
highest compensated employee
$212k
$234k
Asst Corp Sec & Dir Corp Relations
officer (unspecified)
$191k
$210k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 67 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Social Science

Up 4%
from 2022

From $890k in 2022 to $925k in 2023.

$890k
2022
$925k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Roughly flat in real terms$1M to $1M

Estimated with Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH 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

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$41.7M
$38.5M
2022
$61M
$38.4M
2023
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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