Children's Hospital Los Angeles CEO salary and executive pay
Children's Hospital Los Angeles paid its CEO, Paul S Viviano, $1,888,151 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is down $407,146 (17.7%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. Total revenue on that return was $1,816,852,966, up 5.0% from $1,730,952,838 for the fiscal year ending June 2024. Children's Hospital Los Angeles ranks 180th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Children's Hospital Los Angeles has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 95-1690977, Los Angeles, CA.
CEO, fiscal year ending June 2025
$1,888,151
Also listed with a chief executive title on this filing: Lara Khouri (President & Chief Operating Officer), $1,061,228.
- Total revenue
- $1,816,852,966
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 31%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending June 2025, IRS object ID 202621359349314362.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 126th of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.10% 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, 16 people were paid more than $500,000, 3 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Paul S Viviano CEO Director, CEO | $1,888,151 |
| Pat R Levitt PhDSVP, Faculty | $1,086,788 |
| Lara KhouriPresident & Chief Operating Officer | $1,061,228 |
| M Scott LieberenzSVP, Chief Financial Officer | $987,261 |
| James Stein MDSVP, Chief Medical Officer | $949,938 |
Also paid on the latest return: William Marsh (VP, Real Estate Development), $934,004; Alexandra Carter (SVP, Chief Development Officer), $904,952; Timothy Triche MD (Faculty), $875,368; Grace Oh (SVP, Chief Legal Officer), $829,768; Alan S Wayne MD (Director & Faculty), $813,346; Conrad Band (SVP, Chief Information Officer), $802,751; Mark D Krieger MD (Director & Faculty), $787,352; David Miller MD (Faculty), $732,564; Mamoon Syed (SVP, Chief People Officer), $695,629; Kelly Johnson (SVP, Chief Nursing Officer), $643,260; Robert Adler MD (Faculty), $507,054; Hanna Melcher (SVP, Chief Opprtnty, Intgrty, Impact), $473,712; Mona Patel Gera MD (Director & Faculty), $444,948; Judith M Kline (Corporate Secretary), $305,698; Nancy Lee (Former Key Employee), $259,258.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Byron H Pollitt Jr (Director, Chair-Elect of Board), Kevin H Brogan (Director, Chair of Board), Alia Tutor (Director), Burt Levitch (Director), Cara Natterson MD (Director), Cheryl Kunin Fair (Director), Christopher C Martin FAIA (Director), Diana M Bonta RN DrPH (Director), Eugene Mitch Mitchell (Director), George H Brown (Director), Jeffrey Jeff Worthe (Director), Laurence Larry E Paul MD (Director), Sheri Sani (Director).
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 | Paul S Viviano CEO Director, CEO | $1,888,151 | $1,816,852,966 | Filing |
| Jun 2024 | Paul S Viviano CEO DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT AND CEO | $2,295,297 | $1,730,952,838 | Filing |
| Jun 2023 | Paul S Viviano CEO DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT AND CEO | $2,080,879 | $1,609,939,633 | Filing |
| Jun 2022 | Paul S Viviano CEO DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT AND CEO | $1,736,899 | $1,475,323,488 | 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 202621359349314362.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Paul S VivianoDirector, CEO | $1,841,888 | $46,263 | $1,641,729 | $0 | $200,159 | $9,900 | $36,363 | $1,888,151 |
| Pat R Levitt PhDSVP, Faculty | $1,086,788 | $0 | $1,086,788 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,086,788 |
| Lara KhouriPresident & Chief Operating Officer | $1,016,528 | $44,700 | $888,621 | $0 | $127,907 | $13,576 | $31,124 | $1,061,228 |
| M Scott LieberenzSVP, Chief Financial Officer | $947,276 | $39,985 | $825,769 | $0 | $121,507 | $13,492 | $26,493 | $987,261 |
| James Stein MDSVP, Chief Medical Officer | $939,073 | $10,865 | $660,300 | $0 | $278,773 | $9,150 | $1,715 | $949,938 |
These figures come from Children's Hospital Los Angeles' 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 Children's Hospital Los Angeles compares
Ranked 180th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 179th, Bayhealth Medical Center, $1,936,220
- Next in this ranking: 181st, Christ Hospital, $1,872,912
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center$6,979,162 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Maimonides Medical Center$1,815,126 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Lexington Medical Center$4,261,823 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Children's National Hospital$2,644,721 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Main Line Health$3,302,622 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Common questions
Paul S Viviano (Director, CEO) was paid $1,888,151 for the fiscal year ending June 2025: $1,841,888 from Children's Hospital Los Angeles and $46,263 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Paul S Viviano, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $1,888,151.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles paid its CEO, Paul S Viviano, $1,888,151 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is down $407,146 (17.7%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending June 2022, when the CEO was Paul S Viviano, paid $1,736,899. By fiscal year end: June 2022, $1,736,899 (Paul S Viviano); June 2023, $2,080,879; June 2024, $2,295,297; June 2025, $1,888,151.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles' return for the fiscal year ending June 2025 reports total expenses of $1,930,797,327 and total revenue of $1,816,852,966 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so expenses exceeded revenue by $113,944,361. Expenses were $1,818,061,032 for the fiscal year ending June 2024, so they rose 6.2%. The CEO's pay of $1,888,151 equals 0.10% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Children's Hospital Los Angeles filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on May 15, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending June 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.