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Filing year 2023

OPERA MEMPHIS INC

Memphis, Tennessee·EIN 62-0785544·NTEE A6A0 · Arts, Culture & Humanities·3
Total revenue
$953k
Total assets
$5.8M
Total expenses
$1.4M
Reported officers
20
Mission

THE MISSION OF OPERA MEMPHIS IS TO ENTERTAIN AND INSPIRE THE PEOPLE OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH THROUGH THE ART OF OPERA.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2023

General Director
director (operational)
$116k
$127k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

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

Plus 19 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Arts, Culture & Humanities

Held steady
from 2022

From $117k in 2022 to $116k in 2023.

$117k
2022
$116k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 5% in real terms$134k to $127k

Estimated with BLS CPI-U for the South 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

OPERA MEMPHIS INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$1.1M
$1M
2022
$953k
$1.4M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Arts, Culture & Humanities executives earn in Tennessee

Comparable arts, culture & humanities organizations in Tennessee pay their highest-earning executive a median of $50,000.

25th percentile
$22k
Median
$50,000
75th percentile
$110k
90th percentile
$232k

These are arts, culture & humanities sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 71 organizations across 71 filings (2021 – 2023).

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