Christ Hospital CEO salary and executive pay
Christ Hospital paid its CEO, Deborah Hayes, $1,872,912 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $291,678 (18.4%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. Total revenue on that return was $1,491,663,160, up 7.7% from $1,385,143,950 for the fiscal year ending June 2024. Christ Hospital ranks 181st of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Christ Hospital has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 31-0538525, Cincinnati, OH.
CEO, fiscal year ending June 2025
$1,872,912
Highest-paid person, fiscal year ending June 2025
$1,919,883Dean J Kereiakes MDPHYSICIAN
- Total revenue
- $1,491,663,160
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 45%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending June 2025, IRS object ID 202621349349311897.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 101st of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.13% 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, 6 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Dean J Kereiakes MDPHYSICIAN | $1,919,883 |
| Deborah Hayes CEO PRESIDENT/CEO | $1,872,912 |
| Marc Schneider MDPHYSICIAN | $1,620,673 |
| John Smith MDPHYSICIAN | $1,458,425 |
| Geoffrey Answini MDPHYSICIAN | $1,410,953 |
Also paid on the latest return: Sasidhar Kilaru MD (PHYSICIAN), $1,277,241; Theodore Scherpenberg (VP & CFO), $961,575; Jennifer Manders (PHYSICIAN & DIRECTOR), $450,484.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Amy Hanson (TREASURER (THRU 10/24) / DIRECTOR/BOARD CHAIRMAN (BEG 10/24)), George H Vincent (SECRETARY), John Lanier (DIRECTOR (THRU 10/24) / TREASURER (BEG 10/24)), Barbara Turner (DIRECTOR), Jeb Head (BOARD CHAIRMAN (THRU 10/24), DIRECTOR), John Burns (DIRECTOR (BEG 1/25)), Mark Manley MD (PHYSICIAN & DIRECTOR), Patrick Lafley (DIRECTOR), R Kerry Clark (DIRECTOR), Robert Heimann (DIRECTOR), Shailesh Jejurikar (DIRECTOR), Thomas R Gerdes (DIRECTOR), Victoria B Gluckman (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 | Deborah Hayes CEO PRESIDENT/CEO | $1,872,912 | $1,491,663,160 | Filing |
| Jun 2024 | Deborah Hayes CEO PRESIDENT/CEO | $1,581,234 | $1,385,143,950 | Filing |
| Jun 2023 | DEBORAH HAYES CEO PRESIDENT/CEO | $1,562,172 | $1,300,788,434 | Filing |
| Jun 2022 | DEBORAH HAYES CEO PRESIDENT/CEO | $1,008,581 | $1,223,368,789 | 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 202621349349311897.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Dean J Kereiakes MDPHYSICIAN | $1,896,664 | $23,219 | $1,646,430 | $203,750 | $46,484 | $0 | $23,219 | $1,919,883 |
| Deborah HayesPRESIDENT/CEO | $1,417,535 | $455,377 | $1,003,450 | $387,061 | $27,024 | $444,475 | $10,902 | $1,872,912 |
| Marc Schneider MDPHYSICIAN | $1,581,502 | $39,171 | $1,523,600 | $30,000 | $27,902 | $0 | $39,171 | $1,620,673 |
| John Smith MDPHYSICIAN | $1,429,827 | $28,598 | $1,299,453 | $112,500 | $17,874 | $0 | $28,598 | $1,458,425 |
| Geoffrey Answini MDPHYSICIAN | $1,379,820 | $31,133 | $1,276,918 | $75,000 | $27,902 | $46 | $31,087 | $1,410,953 |
These figures come from Christ Hospital'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 Christ Hospital compares
Ranked 181st of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 180th, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, $1,888,151
- Next in this ranking: 182nd, Stormont-Vail Healthcare, $1,829,935
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Tufts Medical Center$1,816,696 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Lakeland Regional Health$1,740,097 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Baptist Health (Arkansas)$2,295,979 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Eisenhower Health$2,905,536 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Akron Children's$1,791,308 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
Deborah Hayes (PRESIDENT/CEO) was paid $1,872,912 for the fiscal year ending June 2025: $1,417,535 from Christ Hospital and $455,377 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The highest-paid person on the latest return was Dean J Kereiakes MD (PHYSICIAN), at $1,919,883. That is $46,971 more than the CEO, Deborah Hayes.
Christ Hospital paid its CEO, Deborah Hayes, $1,872,912 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $291,678 (18.4%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending June 2022, when the CEO was DEBORAH HAYES, paid $1,008,581. By fiscal year end: June 2022, $1,008,581 (DEBORAH HAYES); June 2023, $1,562,172; June 2024, $1,581,234; June 2025, $1,872,912.
Christ Hospital's return for the fiscal year ending June 2025 reports total expenses of $1,453,611,579 and total revenue of $1,491,663,160 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $38,051,581. Expenses were $1,373,225,648 for the fiscal year ending June 2024, so they rose 5.9%. The CEO's pay of $1,872,912 equals 0.13% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Christ Hospital 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.