A charticle to interest Nina Munk and, perhaps, others of the cher public.
Peter Gelb, who recently has been asking the Met’s rank and file for salary concessions, had his own compensation bumped up 36% for the 2007-08 season.
According to Bloomberg News, Gelb earned about $1.5 million during his second year as the Met’s general manager. Since then he and the Met’s senior staff have taken 10% cuts.
What La Cieca finds particularly intriguing about the Bloomberg piece is that it reveals that Gelb still takes home a smaller paycheck than Joe Volpe did at the end of his Met incumbency. Uncle Joe’s final haul was $1.7 million for the financial year ending July 2006.
Peter Gelb‘s million-dollar salary and the wit and wisdom of George Steel (“Things are tough”) are among the axes ground in Sunday’s Tony Tommasini think piece. [NYT]
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