Boys Town CEO salary and executive pay
Boys Town paid its CEO, Rodney J Kempkes, $769,189 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $144,574 (23.1%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. Total revenue on that return was $503,397,755, up 9.4% from $460,134,086 for the fiscal year ending December 2023. Boys Town ranks 9th of 17 human services nonprofits on this site by CEO pay. Boys Town has 3 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 47-0376606, Boys Town, NE.
CEO, fiscal year ending December 2024
$769,189
Highest-paid person, fiscal year ending December 2024
$1,656,247Kelli Jo Shidler MDPhysician
- Total revenue
- $503,397,755
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 51%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202503189349307945.View the filing
Peers: the 330 other organizations on this site with revenue of $500 million to $5 billion. Ranked 161st of 331 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.15% 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, 7 people were paid more than $500,000, 2 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Kelli Jo Shidler MDPhysician | $1,656,247 |
| Mark PuccioniPhysician | $1,054,657 |
| Isabella HermanPhysician | $783,168 |
| Richard Tempero MDPhysician | $779,522 |
| Rodney J Kempkes CEO President Chief Executive Officer | $769,189 |
Also paid on the latest return: Mara Paradis MD (Physician), $708,248; Dr Jason Bruce (Executive Vice President Healthcare), $639,682; Judy F Rasmussen CPA (Executive Vice President Finance), $480,314; Dana E Washington (Executive Vice President, General Counsel), $450,611; Monty J Horine (Senior Vice President Corporate Secretary), $353,086; Robby A Simard (Vice President and Director of Youth Care), $318,033; Barbara J Vollmer (Executive Vice President, Director of Youth Care), $303,651; James L Beckman JD (Assistant Corporate Secretary), $170,674.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Anthony J Aquino (Director), Dorothy Zolandz (Director), Helen A Fox-O'Brien (Director), Janet S Twyman (Director), Jodi L Probst (Director), Joni W Wheeler (Director), Kathleen F Driscoll (Chair), Laurine M Garrity (Director), Linda A LeBlanc PhD (Director), Mark Tilden (Director), Peter P Jones (Director), Rick Velasco (Director), Robert Nkogo-Nze (Director), Sherrye Hutcherson (Director), Thomas B Barker (Chair Elect), Thomas J Culhane (Director).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2024 | Rodney J Kempkes CEO President Chief Executive Officer | $769,189 | $503,397,755 | Filing |
| Dec 2023 | Rodney J Kempkes CEO President Chief Executive Officer | $624,615 | $460,134,086 | Filing |
| Dec 2022 Amended | Rodney J Kempkes CEO Chief Executive Officer | $589,710 | $461,604,820 | Filing |
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 202503189349307945.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Kelli Jo Shidler MDPhysician | $1,600,266 | $55,981 | $1,599,427 | $0 | $839 | $20,700 | $35,281 | $1,656,247 |
| Mark PuccioniPhysician | $996,592 | $58,065 | $995,119 | $0 | $1,473 | $20,700 | $37,365 | $1,054,657 |
| Isabella HermanPhysician | $720,441 | $62,727 | $719,751 | $0 | $690 | $20,700 | $42,027 | $783,168 |
| Richard Tempero MDPhysician | $721,091 | $58,431 | $720,052 | $0 | $1,039 | $20,700 | $37,731 | $779,522 |
| Rodney J KempkesPresident Chief Executive Officer | $726,025 | $43,164 | $720,715 | $0 | $5,310 | $20,700 | $22,464 | $769,189 |
These figures come from Boys Town'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 Boys Town compares
Ranked 9th of 17 human services nonprofits by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 8th, Southwest Key Programs, $1,166,741
- Next in this ranking: 10th, MERS Goodwill, $591,461
Closest in revenue among organizations in the same revenue band:
Electric Power Research Institute$2,870,259 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health$871,262 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Apella Health$2,734,045 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
RAND Corporation$1,182,669 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
FHI 360$712,991 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Common questions
Rodney J Kempkes (President Chief Executive Officer) was paid $769,189 for the fiscal year ending December 2024: $726,025 from Boys Town and $43,164 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The highest-paid person on the latest return was Kelli Jo Shidler MD (Physician), at $1,656,247. That is $887,058 more than the CEO, Rodney J Kempkes.
Boys Town paid its CEO, Rodney J Kempkes, $769,189 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $144,574 (23.1%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending December 2022, when the CEO was Rodney J Kempkes, paid $589,710. By fiscal year end: December 2022, $589,710 (Rodney J Kempkes); December 2023, $624,615; December 2024, $769,189.
Boys Town's return for the fiscal year ending December 2024 reports total expenses of $498,401,192 and total revenue of $503,397,755 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $4,996,563. Expenses were $481,460,817 for the fiscal year ending December 2023, so they rose 3.5%. The CEO's pay of $769,189 equals 0.15% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 3 Form 990 returns Boys Town filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024. The latest full-year return was filed on November 14, 2025. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending December 2024 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.