Cedars-Sinai CEO salary and executive pay
Cedars-Sinai paid its CEO, Thomas M Priselac, $9,076,459 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $267,658 (3.0%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. Total revenue on that return was $5,868,996,069, up 11.1% from $5,280,774,922 for the fiscal year ending June 2024. Cedars-Sinai ranks 26th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Cedars-Sinai has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 95-1644600, Los Angeles, CA.
CEO, fiscal year ending June 2025
$9,076,459
Also listed with a chief executive title on this filing: Peter L Slavin MD (PRESIDENT/BOARD MEMBER), $1,871,874.
- Total revenue
- $5,868,996,069
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 56%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending June 2025, IRS object ID 202631349349313568.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 80th of 184 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, 14 people were paid more than $500,000, 12 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Thomas M Priselac CEO PRESIDENT/BOARD MEMBER | $9,076,459 |
| Eduardo Marban MDEXEC DIRECTOR-HEART INSTITUTE | $4,546,853 |
| Keith Black MDCHAIR-NEUROSURGERY | $4,220,602 |
| Rajendra Makkar MDEXEC DIRECTOR-CARDIAC INTERVENTIONAL SERVICES | $4,053,341 |
| Shlomo Melmed MDCHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER | $3,872,673 |
Also paid on the latest return: Joanna Chikwe MD (CHAIR-CARDIAC SURGERY), $3,801,326; David M Wrigley (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER), $3,169,609; Arthur J Ochoa JD (CHIEF ADVANCEMENT OFFICER), $2,619,836; Bryan Croft (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER), $2,071,233; Peter L Slavin MD (PRESIDENT/BOARD MEMBER), $1,871,874; Jeffrey Smith MD JD MMM (FORMER KEY EMPLOYEE), $1,561,077; Irene Kim MD (STAFF PHYS./BOARD MEMBER), $1,262,441; Kimberly Gregory MD MPH (STAFF PHYS./BOARD MEMBER), $835,014; Edward M Prunchunas (FORMER OFFICER), $831,247; Gary H Hoffman MD (CHIEF OF MEDICAL STAFF/BOARD MEMBER), $130,001; Monique Araya MD (BOARD MEMBER), $100,330.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: John Bendheim (SECRETARY/BOARD MEMBER), Lawrence B Platt (SECRETARY/BOARD MEMBER), Sonu Ahluwalia MD (BOARD MEMBER), Mohamed Mike Ahmar (BOARD MEMBER), Casey Bloys (BOARD MEMBER), Laura W Brill (BOARD MEMBER), Marc Edelstein MD (CHIEF OF MEDICAL STAFF/BOARD MEMBER), Ari Engelberg (BOARD MEMBER), Abby Feinman (BOARD MEMBER), Jose E Feliciano (BOARD MEMBER), Laura Livingston Fox (BOARD MEMBER), Johanna Fuentes (BOARD MEMBER), Vera Guerin (BOARD MEMBER), Eric Holoman (BOARD MEMBER), David B Kaplan (CHAIR/BOARD MEMBER), Michelle Kittleson MD PhD (BOARD MEMBER), Thomas J Leanse Esq (BOARD MEMBER), David B Lee MD MPH MBA (BOARD MEMBER), Debra Lee Esq (BOARD MEMBER), Jose De Jesus Legaspi (BOARD MEMBER), James M Lippman (BOARD MEMBER), Joshua Lobel (BOARD MEMBER), Julie B Platt (BOARD MEMBER), Susan Rabizadeh MD (BOARD MEMBER), Marc H Rapaport (BOARD MEMBER), and 8 more.
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2025 | Thomas M Priselac CEO PRESIDENT/BOARD MEMBER | $9,076,459 | $5,868,996,069 | Filing |
| Jun 2024 | Thomas M Priselac CEO PRESIDENT/CEO | $8,808,801 | $5,280,774,922 | Filing |
| Jun 2023 | Thomas M Priselac CEO PRESIDENT/CEO | $6,625,477 | $4,655,895,710 | Filing |
| Jun 2022 | Thomas M Priselac CEO PRESIDENT/CEO | $6,576,584 | $4,698,645,086 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending June 2025.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending June 2025, IRS object ID 202631349349313568.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Thomas M PriselacPRESIDENT/BOARD MEMBER | $7,858,909 | $1,217,550 | $2,652,577 | $3,317,694 | $1,888,638 | $1,188,608 | $28,942 | $9,076,459 |
| Eduardo Marban MDEXEC DIRECTOR-HEART INSTITUTE | $4,147,273 | $399,580 | $2,594,572 | $579,284 | $973,417 | $360,725 | $38,855 | $4,546,853 |
| Keith Black MDCHAIR-NEUROSURGERY | $3,911,579 | $309,023 | $2,557,649 | $586,661 | $767,269 | $273,820 | $35,203 | $4,220,602 |
| Rajendra Makkar MDEXEC DIRECTOR-CARDIAC INTERVENTIONAL SERVICES | $3,776,089 | $277,252 | $2,098,063 | $1,202,602 | $475,424 | $230,505 | $46,747 | $4,053,341 |
| Shlomo Melmed MDCHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER | $3,293,445 | $579,228 | $1,538,092 | $949,202 | $806,151 | $551,350 | $27,878 | $3,872,673 |
These figures come from Cedars-Sinai'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 Cedars-Sinai compares
Ranked 26th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 25th, Providence Health, $9,125,384
- Next in this ranking: 27th, RWJBarnabas Health, $8,864,611
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Montefiore Health System$16,690,037 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Allina Health$4,092,093 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
OhioHealth$6,546,210 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Ochsner Health$7,011,513 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Fairview Health Services$5,659,485 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
Thomas M Priselac (PRESIDENT/BOARD MEMBER) was paid $9,076,459 for the fiscal year ending June 2025: $7,858,909 from Cedars-Sinai and $1,217,550 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Thomas M Priselac, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $9,076,459.
Cedars-Sinai paid its CEO, Thomas M Priselac, $9,076,459 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $267,658 (3.0%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending June 2022, when the CEO was Thomas M Priselac, paid $6,576,584. By fiscal year end: June 2022, $6,576,584 (Thomas M Priselac); June 2023, $6,625,477; June 2024, $8,808,801; June 2025, $9,076,459.
Cedars-Sinai's return for the fiscal year ending June 2025 reports total expenses of $4,746,868,087 and total revenue of $5,868,996,069 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $1,122,127,982. Expenses were $4,513,878,834 for the fiscal year ending June 2024, so they rose 5.2%. The CEO's pay of $9,076,459 equals 0.19% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Cedars-Sinai filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on May 14, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending June 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.