Aerospace Corporation CEO salary and executive pay
Aerospace Corporation paid its CEO, S J Isakowitz, $2,257,756 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is down $2,986 (0.1%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. Total revenue on that return was $1,623,067,000, up 18.2% from $1,372,694,000 for the fiscal year ending September 2024. Aerospace Corporation ranks 4th of 15 research institutes on this site by CEO pay. Aerospace Corporation has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 95-2102389, Chantilly, VA.
CEO, fiscal year ending September 2025
$2,257,756
Also listed with a chief executive title on this filing: S K Steele (Exec Dir), $435,108.
- Total revenue
- $1,623,067,000
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 46%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending September 2025, IRS object ID 202632189349300933.View the filing
Peers: the 330 other organizations on this site with revenue of $500 million to $5 billion. Ranked 179th of 331 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.14% of revenue, our calculation from the same return. Revenue is Part I, line 12; peers are compared on their latest full-year returns.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 20 people were paid more than $500,000, 2 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| S J Isakowitz CEO President & CEO | $2,257,756 |
| R L KendallVice President | $1,027,411 |
| J MorinVice President | $972,473 |
| T PembertonVice President | $968,800 |
| T M NygrenVice President | $941,504 |
Also paid on the latest return: E M Swallow (Vice President), $940,431; K D Bell (Vice President), $928,542; J M Myers (Vice President), $867,235; T L Choy (Vice President), $830,761; H R Laychak (Vice President), $779,859; D Emmons (Vice President), $770,816; W H Goodman (Vice President), $737,867; J L Emdee (Gen Mgr), $727,237; G E McKeown (Vice President), $723,486; C T Lindsay (Gen Mgr), $707,729; M Whelan (Vice President), $702,069; A B Dawdy (Gen Mgr), $635,718; J S Fujita (Gen Mgr), $615,059; J G Santee (Vice President), $595,228; S M Leontis (Gen Mgr), $525,633; and 24 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: F Calvelli (Trustee), W B Hurd (Trustee), W A LaPlante (Trustee), L R Urrutia-Varhall (Trustee), S A Shinn (Vice President), K Naeher (Vice President).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | S J Isakowitz CEO President & CEO | $2,257,756 | $1,623,067,000 | Filing |
| Sep 2024 | S J Isakowitz CEO President & CEO | $2,260,742 | $1,372,694,000 | Filing |
| Sep 2023 | S J Isakowitz CEO President & CEO | $2,069,862 | $1,301,016,000 | Filing |
| Sep 2022 | S J Isakowitz CEO President & CEO | $1,813,476 | $1,192,327,000 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending September 2025.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending September 2025, IRS object ID 202632189349300933.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| S J IsakowitzPresident & CEO | $1,918,234 | $339,522 | $810,101 | $780,335 | $327,798 | $323,866 | $15,656 | $2,257,756 |
| R L KendallVice President | $602,349 | $425,062 | $342,768 | $132,671 | $126,910 | $367,308 | $57,754 | $1,027,411 |
| J MorinVice President | $803,217 | $169,256 | $371,432 | $149,028 | $282,757 | $133,645 | $35,611 | $972,473 |
| T PembertonVice President | $835,121 | $133,679 | $454,452 | $172,328 | $208,341 | $125,344 | $8,335 | $968,800 |
| T M NygrenVice President | $534,456 | $407,048 | $357,617 | $145,049 | $31,790 | $356,677 | $50,371 | $941,504 |
These figures come from Aerospace Corporation'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 Aerospace Corporation compares
Ranked 4th of 15 research institutes by CEO pay.
Closest in revenue among organizations in the same revenue band:
Samaritan's Purse$624,763 (highest-paid), fiscal year ending Dec 2025
Shriners Hospitals for Children$2,387,804 (highest-paid), fiscal year ending Dec 2025
NCAA$3,439,897 (CEO), fiscal year ending Aug 2025
The Nature Conservancy$936,855 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
BAYADA Home Health Care$5,516,084 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
S J Isakowitz (President & CEO) was paid $2,257,756 for the fiscal year ending September 2025: $1,918,234 from Aerospace Corporation and $339,522 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, S J Isakowitz, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $2,257,756.
Aerospace Corporation paid its CEO, S J Isakowitz, $2,257,756 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is down $2,986 (0.1%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending September 2022, when the CEO was S J Isakowitz, paid $1,813,476. By fiscal year end: September 2022, $1,813,476 (S J Isakowitz); September 2023, $2,069,862; September 2024, $2,260,742; September 2025, $2,257,756.
Aerospace Corporation's return for the fiscal year ending September 2025 reports total expenses of $1,557,900,000 and total revenue of $1,623,067,000 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $65,167,000. Expenses were $1,328,028,000 for the fiscal year ending September 2024, so they rose 17.3%. The CEO's pay of $2,257,756 equals 0.14% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Aerospace Corporation filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on August 6, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending September 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.