Children's Mercy Kansas City CEO salary and executive pay
Children's Mercy Kansas City paid its CEO, Paul Kempinski MS FACHE, $1,803,068 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $85,483 (5.0%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. Total revenue on that return was $2,340,991,656, up 12.8% from $2,076,068,874 for the fiscal year ending June 2024. Children's Mercy Kansas City ranks 187th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Children's Mercy Kansas City has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 44-0605373, Kansas City, MO.
CEO, fiscal year ending June 2025
$1,803,068
- Total revenue
- $2,340,991,656
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 16%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending June 2025, IRS object ID 202601319349305760.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 154th of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.08% 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, 18 people were paid more than $500,000, 7 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Paul Kempinski MS FACHE CEO Director; President & CEO; End 1/2/25 | $1,803,068 |
| William Douglas MDPhysician | $1,768,758 |
| James O'Brien Jr MD FACSPhysician | $1,764,221 |
| Shawn St Peter MDSVP; Chair, Department of Surgery | $1,246,021 |
| William Gibson DOPhysician | $1,235,058 |
Also paid on the latest return: Jodi Coombs MBA BSN RN (EVP & Chief Operating Officer; End 9/3/24), $1,192,695; Edo Bedzra MD MBA (Physician), $1,029,363; James Simaras CPA MBA (EVP & Chief Financial Officer), $965,011; Bhargava Mullapudi MD (Physician; End 12/1/24), $910,016; Robert Steele MD MBA (EVP & Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer), $863,686; Douglas Rivard DO (EVP & Physician-in-Chief; Start 9/8/24), $860,881; Robin Foster JD (EVP, General Counsel; End 7/2/25), $819,774; Jeanne James MD MBA FAAP (Sr VP Chair, Department of Pediatrics), $775,442; Jenea Oliver PhD (Sr VP, Chief Development Officer), $762,798; Thomas Wright (EVP & Chief Human Resources Officer; End 7/1/25), $685,679; Stephanie Meyer MS-FNP RN NEA-BC (EVP & Chief Nursing Exec/COO Acute Care; Start 2/8/25), $610,413; Mary Anne Queen MD FAAP (Director; End 12/31/24), $588,286; Steven Leeder PharmD PhD (EVP & Chief Scientific Officer; Start 2/9/25), $555,787; Jennifer Kingry CPA (Former Interim CFO), $480,264; Amy Fallon PhD MPH (President of Regional Operations; Start 2/9/25), $416,010; and 3 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Alejandro Quiroga MD MBA (Director; President & CEO; Start 1/2/25), Charlie Harris (Secretary), Diane Gallagher (Chair), Kevin Barth (Vice Chair), Vince Clark (Treasurer), Ashley McClellan (Director; Start 7/1/24), Bill Krueger (Director), Christy Dempsey (Director), Jeff Gehab (Director), Kevin Bryant (Director; Start 7/1/24), Olga Koper (Director), Paul McLaughlin (Director; Start 7/1/24), Terry Matlack (Director), Walter Porter (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 Kempinski MS FACHE CEO Director; President & CEO; End 1/2/25 | $1,803,068 | $2,340,991,656 | Filing |
| Jun 2024 | Paul D Kempinski MS FACHE CEO Director; President & CEO | $1,717,585 | $2,076,068,874 | Filing |
| Jun 2023 | Paul D Kempinski MS FACHE CEO Director; President & CEO | $1,697,300 | $2,042,894,714 | Filing |
| Jun 2022 | Paul D Kempinski MS FACHE CEO Director; President & CEO | $1,608,633 | $2,052,831,088 | 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 202601319349305760.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Paul Kempinski MS FACHEDirector; President & CEO; End 1/2/25 | $1,760,635 | $42,433 | $1,333,041 | $392,365 | $35,229 | $25,875 | $16,558 | $1,803,068 |
| William Douglas MDPhysician | $1,718,527 | $50,231 | $1,674,617 | $7,851 | $36,059 | $25,875 | $24,356 | $1,768,758 |
| James O'Brien Jr MD FACSPhysician | $1,709,538 | $54,683 | $1,672,495 | $0 | $37,043 | $31,050 | $23,633 | $1,764,221 |
| Shawn St Peter MDSVP; Chair, Department of Surgery | $1,190,498 | $55,523 | $1,019,851 | $144,918 | $25,729 | $31,050 | $24,473 | $1,246,021 |
| William Gibson DOPhysician | $1,187,862 | $47,196 | $1,154,857 | $7,851 | $25,154 | $22,425 | $24,771 | $1,235,058 |
These figures come from Children's Mercy Kansas City'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 Children's Mercy Kansas City compares
Ranked 187th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 186th, Hendrick Health, $1,812,647
- Next in this ranking: 188th, Southcoast Health, $1,798,618
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Nemours Children's Health$3,081,278 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Community Health Network$3,879,760 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Cone Health$1,678,281 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2024
Endeavor Health$5,191,626 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Mass General Brigham$9,180,758 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Common questions
Paul Kempinski MS FACHE (Director; President & CEO; End 1/2/25) was paid $1,803,068 for the fiscal year ending June 2025: $1,760,635 from Children's Mercy Kansas City and $42,433 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Paul Kempinski MS FACHE, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $1,803,068.
Children's Mercy Kansas City paid its CEO, Paul Kempinski MS FACHE, $1,803,068 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $85,483 (5.0%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending June 2022, when the CEO was Paul D Kempinski MS FACHE, paid $1,608,633. By fiscal year end: June 2022, $1,608,633 (Paul D Kempinski MS FACHE); June 2023, $1,697,300; June 2024, $1,717,585; June 2025, $1,803,068.
Children's Mercy Kansas City's return for the fiscal year ending June 2025 reports total expenses of $2,006,474,542 and total revenue of $2,340,991,656 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $334,517,114. Expenses were $1,814,371,760 for the fiscal year ending June 2024, so they rose 10.6%. The CEO's pay of $1,803,068 equals 0.09% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Children's Mercy Kansas City filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on May 11, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending June 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.