Advocate Health CEO salary and executive pay
Advocate Health paid its CEO, Eugene Woods, $25,781,275 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $7,204,373 (38.8%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. Total revenue on that return was $333,741. Advocate Health ranks 3rd of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. All of Eugene Woods' reportable pay, $22,870,197, came from related organizations (column E). Advocate Health has 2 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2023 to 2024.
See also: Advocate Aurora Health, AH Georgia, which reports the same executives on its own return.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 88-4157429, Charlotte, NC.
CEO, fiscal year ending December 2024
$25,781,275
Highest-paid person, fiscal year ending December 2024
$30,862,679James SkogsberghCO-CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
- Revenue on this return
- $333,741
- This is the system's parent filer; the system's largest single return is filed by Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp (EIN 36-2169147), with $7,808,910,070 in revenue on its latest return.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202533219349327728.View the filing
Revenue is Part I, line 12. Pay as a share of revenue and the peer comparison are not shown for a parent filer.
Advocate Health, Inc., based in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the parent created by the 2022 combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health, and it reports the chief executive's pay on its own return. Advocate Aurora Health Inc, the parent from before the combination, and the system's hospital companies file separate returns. The 2024 return lists Eugene Woods as chief executive officer, paid through related organizations, and Jim Skogsbergh as co-chief executive officer; Schedule J reports a severance payment of $8,119,365 to Skogsbergh in 2024.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 21 people were paid more than $1 million and no one else more than $500,000.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| James SkogsberghCO-CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $30,862,679 |
| Eugene Woods CEO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $25,781,275 |
| William SantulliPRESIDENT MIDWEST REGION | $7,866,221 |
| Julie FreischlagEVP CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER | $7,634,720 |
| Ken HaynesEVP CHIEF ENTERPRISE SERVICES OFFICER | $5,358,318 |
Also paid on the latest return: Gary Stuck (EVP CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER), $5,031,929; Anthony Defurio (EVP, CFO, TREASURER), $4,324,005; Scott Rissmiller (EVP CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER), $4,323,003; Brett Denton (EVP CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER, SECRETARY), $4,008,208; Carol Lovin (EVP CHIEF OF STAFF & INTEGRATION), $3,881,370; Barbara Byrne (EVP CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER), $3,716,024; Richard Klein (EVP CHIEF OF STAFF), $3,704,370; Rasu Shrestha (EVP CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER), $3,510,575; Shoeb Sitafalwalla (EVP CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER), $3,223,967; Brad Clark (EVP CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, TREASURER), $2,933,092; Kelly Jo Golson (EVP CHIEF BRAND & CONSUMER OFFICER), $2,911,664; Mary Beth Kingston (EVP CHIEF NURSING OFFICER), $2,833,179; Kinneil Coltman (EVP CHIEF CONSUMER & SOCIAL IMPACT OFFICER), $2,333,487; Kevan Mabbutt (EVP CHIEF BRAND & CONSUMER OFFICER), $1,807,477; Dia Nichols (DIVISON PRESIDENT, ILLINOIS), $1,595,804; and 18 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Victoria Sutton (DIRECTOR), Thomas Nelson (DIRECTOR), Donald Flow (DIRECTOR), Joanne Disch (DIRECTOR).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending December 2024.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202533219349327728.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Related | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| James SkogsberghCO-CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $28,850,544 | $0 | $2,012,135 | $1,753,853 | $14,440,055 | $12,656,636 | $1,991,487 | $20,648 | $30,862,679 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Eugene WoodsCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $0 | $22,870,197 | $2,911,078 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $4,634,321 | $14,440,055 | $3,795,821 | $2,901,934 | $9,144 | $25,781,275 | |||
| William Santulli*PRESIDENT MIDWEST REGION | $0 | $7,191,882 | $674,339 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $827,709 | $3,009,211 | $3,354,962 | $642,892 | $31,447 | $7,866,221 | |||
| Julie Freischlag*EVP CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER | $0 | $7,594,629 | $40,091 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $2,476,070 | $4,358,126 | $760,433 | $19,092 | $20,999 | $7,634,720 | |||
| Ken Haynes*EVP CHIEF ENTERPRISE SERVICES OFFICER | $0 | $4,771,848 | $586,470 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $1,666,931 | $2,774,393 | $330,524 | $545,575 | $40,895 | $5,358,318 | |||
These figures come from Advocate Health's Form 990 returns, as the IRS publishes them. The methodology page explains how they're chosen. To report an error, email corrections@ceopaycheck.com.
How Advocate Health compares
Ranked 3rd of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 2nd, NewYork-Presbyterian, $26,271,976
- Next in this ranking: 4th, Montefiore Health System, $16,690,037
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Monument Health$2,199,697 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Premier Health$1,579,749 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Kettering Health$2,096,364 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Loma Linda University Health$914,639 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Baylor Scott & White Health$10,016,731 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2024
Common questions
Eugene Woods (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER) was paid $25,781,275 for the fiscal year ending December 2024: $0 from Advocate Health, $22,870,197 from related organizations and $2,911,078 in other compensation (Part VII columns D, E and F).
The highest-paid person on the latest return was James Skogsbergh (CO-CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER), at $30,862,679. That is $5,081,404 more than the CEO, Eugene Woods.
Advocate Health, Inc., based in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the parent created by the 2022 combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health, and it reports the chief executive's pay on its own return. Advocate Aurora Health Inc, the parent from before the combination, and the system's hospital companies file separate returns.
Advocate Health paid its CEO, Eugene Woods, $25,781,275 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $7,204,373 (38.8%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. By fiscal year end: December 2023, $18,576,902 (Eugene Woods); December 2024, $25,781,275.
Advocate Health's return for the fiscal year ending December 2024 reports total expenses of $2,174,126 and total revenue of $333,741 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so expenses exceeded revenue by $1,840,385. The CEO's pay of $25,781,275 equals 1185.82% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 2 Form 990 returns Advocate Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2023 to 2024. The latest full-year return was filed on November 17, 2025. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending December 2024 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.