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Filing year 2023

THE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND SOCIAL CHANGE INC

Chicago, Illinois·EIN 36-4400754·NTEE A33 · Arts, Culture & Humanities·3
Total revenue
$8.5M
Total assets
$17.4M
Total expenses
$7.6M
Reported officers
4
Mission

Provide educational materials, information, and instruction on issues related to labor, civil, women's rights and other issues of social inequality and economic justice. The mission is carried out through a variety of means, including magazine, book, web-based publishing, and sponsorship of public meetings, seminars, and conferences.

Executive compensation

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

$73k
$81k
Director
board member
$769
$852

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 2 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Arts, Culture & Humanities

Up 19%
from 2022

From $61k in 2022 to $73k in 2023.

$61k
2022
$73k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 16% in real terms$70k to $81k

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI 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

THE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND SOCIAL CHANGE INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$9.7M
$5.5M
2022
$8.5M
$7.6M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Arts, Culture & Humanities executives earn in Illinois

Comparable arts, culture & humanities organizations in Illinois pay their highest-earning executive a median of $38,962.

25th percentile
$16k
Median
$38,962
75th percentile
$85k
90th percentile
$153k

These are arts, culture & humanities sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 180 organizations across 180 filings (2021 – 2023).

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