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Directors of performing art venues cashing in
Annual salaries range from $83,000 to $242,000 a year
BY SARA FOSS Gazette Reporter

    At a time when many arts organizations are struggling fi nancially, directors of the area’s larger performing arts venues are well compensated, with salaries ranging from just less than $100,000 to more than $200,000.
    Marcia White, president and CEO of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, leads area directors with a salary of about $242,000 in 2010. But Philip Morris, executive director of Proctors in Schenectady, has also moved past the $200,000 mark. He takes home about $204,000, an increase from the $110,000 he was paid when he took over at Proctors 10 years ago.
    When asked about their salaries, both White and Morris point to the amount of work they’ve done since taking over their respective organizations and the expansion of programming under their leadership.
    When Morris arrived at Proctors, the historic theater annually hosted about 170 events such as fi lms and live entertainment in the main theater. Today, Proctors hosts 1,738 events each year and has expanded its programming extensively. The organization now runs an in-house coffee shop and elegant banquet hall that opened in 2011, has assumed management of Schenectady’s public access TV station under the subsidiary Open Stage Media and also taken over the administrative functions of Capital Repertory Theatre.
    In 2003, the theater embarked on an ambitious $30 million expansion that tripled the size of its stage, and in 2007 completed renovations to the former Carl Co. store on State Street, adding the 434-seat GE Theatre, new conference space, offices and a new box offi ce.
    Morris said that over the past 10 years, Proctors’ budget has increased from $2.5 million to $18 million and the organization’s staff has doubled from 35 to 70.
    “We do a lot more now than run one building,” Morris said. ......................>>>>...................>>>>........................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00102&AppName=1

it's arts......

It's stealing.

It's "non-profit" remember?

it's 30 some-odd jobs.....GE should pay Morris

and volunteers should be paid for their services....less money for Morris.....that's stealing....

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and volunteers should be paid for their services....less money for Morris.....that's stealing....

no one forces someone to be a volunteer.....just like the US army that is volunteer....these folks CHOOSE it.....if they were paid there would some tax crap to do, some union organization etc etc...
the COLAs involved.....oh my......

just sayin'.....these seniors....most of the volunteers could use a dollar or two...

greed is the answer... performance makes that greed....the more one does the more they expect.

What are they likened to professional athletes????

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just sayin'.....these seniors....most of the volunteers could use a dollar or two...

greed is the answer... performance makes that greed....the more one does the more they expect.

What are they likened to professional athletes????

oh yes, I can only perform on stage if my dressing room has a bottle of tequila and a basket of Reece's cups and a personal barista....

as for the seniors, they have to be very careful of the $$ they make least they go outside the government feed we are all promised......

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oh yes, I can only perform on stage if my dressing room has a bottle of tequila and a basket of Reece's cups and a personal barista....

I wouldn't go onstage unless there was a bowl of Mike & Ike's with all the Ike's removed in the dressing room..........

My neighbors are seniors and they volunteer at proctors and they love it! So does our aunt. They say it keeps them busy and they love being able to watch the shows for free. (except for lion king).......just sayin

As far as proctors.......Morris should have strived on making it 'self sufficient'.....not dependent on taxpayer's money. That would have made his $204K salary more palpable.

look....seniors are the forgotten......and that's all there is to it.....they are used, abused

and what else....

seniors shuld be able to make as much money as they need...without any B S


I know volunteers too...and they enjoy it.....kudos for all volunteers....and I didn't mean anything

to criticize their dedication.....without them where would Proctor's be.....they deserve the medals.

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I wouldn't go onstage unless there was a bowl of Mike & Ike's with all the Ike's removed in the dressing room..........

HAHAHAHAHAHA....funny.....

would you keep Tina?

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and volunteers should be paid for their services....

Volunteers should be paid?  

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vol·un·teer

1.a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
2.a person who performs a service willingly and without pay.

Really?   that seriously has to be the most stupid comment I've seen in this forum, aside from Ron's.

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HAHAHAHAHAHA....funny.....

would you keep Tina?

only if she's not a "crack ho"