Dartmouth Health CEO salary and executive pay
Dartmouth Health paid its CEO, Joanne M Conroy MD, $2,525,898 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $396,757 (18.6%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. Total revenue on that return was $933,976,465, up 6.6% from $875,796,658 for the fiscal year ending June 2024. Dartmouth Health ranks 143rd of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Dartmouth Health has 5 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 22-2519596, Lebanon, NH.
CEO, fiscal year ending June 2025
$2,525,898
- Total revenue
- $933,976,465
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 80%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending June 2025, IRS object ID 202611669349300851.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 36th of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.27% of revenue, our calculation from the same return. Revenue is Part I, line 12; peers are compared on their latest full-year returns.
The system's largest single return is filed separately by Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (EIN 02-0222140), so the revenue shown here is this return's own, not the whole system's.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 21 people were paid more than $500,000, 10 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Joanne M Conroy MD CEO Trustee, Ex-Officio, CEO | $2,525,898 |
| Lixia Z EllisPhysician | $1,397,267 |
| John NigrinyPhysician | $1,377,687 |
| Daniel P JantzenCFO D-HH/Former CFO MHMH | $1,256,164 |
| Matthew LeBoeufPhysician | $1,225,345 |
Also paid on the latest return: Patrick F Jordan III MBA (Chief Operating Officer - DHC (through 6/21/25)), $1,211,968; Linton Evans (GME Program Director), $1,190,265; Adam Pearson (Section Chief), $1,122,025; Edward J Merrens MD (Chief Clinical Officer), $1,101,030; Stephen LeBlanc (Chief Strategy Officer), $1,085,410; Marcus Coe MD (GME Program Director/Trustee), $906,483; John Kacavas (Chief Legal Officer), $845,439; Aimee M Claiborne (Chief Human Resource Officer), $724,176; Maria Padin MD (Former Officer/Chief medical Officer, CGP), $667,837; Peter D Solberg MD (Chief Health Information Officer (DHC) - Former), $665,646; Kimberly Troland JD (Former Interim Chief Legal Officer), $634,220; Keith Loud MD (Trustee /VP Svc Ln & Dept Chair - Pedi), $613,550; Wendy Fielding (Chief Financial Officer), $605,888; Emily Zeitler (Staff Physician/Trustee (as of 1/1/25)), $585,973; Matthew Haag (Chief Development Officer), $561,337; and 9 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: David P Paul (Trustee / Secretary/Treasurer), Roberta L Hines MD (TRUSTEE / Chair), Celestina M Dooley-Jones PHD (Trustee), Duane A Compton PHD (Trustee / Ex-Officio), Gary V Desir (Trustee), Geraldine Bednash PHD RN FAAN (Trustee), Jason T Garbarino DNP RN GERO-BC (Trustee (as of 1/18/25)), Jennifer L Moyer MBA (Trustee), Laurel J Richie (Trustee (as of 1/1/25)), M Elyse Allan (Trustee), Mark S Speers MBA (Trustee), Sherri C Oberg (Trustee).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 Short year, 3 months | No officer pay reportedAll 26 people listed on this return show $0. | $0 | $242,871,810 | Filing |
| Jun 2025 | Joanne M Conroy MD CEO Trustee, Ex-Officio, CEO | $2,525,898 | $933,976,465 | Filing |
| Jun 2024 | Joanne M Conroy MD CEO Trustee, Ex-Officio, CEO | $2,129,141 | $875,796,658 | Filing |
| Jun 2023 | Joanne M Conroy MD CEO Trustee, Ex-Officio, CEO | $1,713,475 | $638,417,127 | Filing |
| Jun 2022 | Joanne M Conroy MD CEO Trustee, Ex-Officio, CEO | $1,728,788 | $611,625,171 | 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 202611669349300851.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Related | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Joanne M Conroy MD*Trustee, Ex-Officio, CEO | $2,473,236 | $0 | $52,662 | $1,685,674 | $552,000 | $235,562 | $32,970 | $19,692 | $2,525,898 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Lixia Z EllisPhysician | $1,332,481 | $0 | $64,786 | $1,016,716 | $292,495 | $23,270 | $20,700 | $44,086 | $1,397,267 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| John NigrinyPhysician | $1,299,631 | $0 | $78,056 | $1,180,120 | $0 | $119,511 | $32,970 | $45,086 | $1,377,687 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Daniel P Jantzen*CFO D-HH/Former CFO MHMH | $0 | $1,184,287 | $71,877 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $859,350 | $180,000 | $144,937 | $32,970 | $38,907 | $1,256,164 | |||
| Matthew LeBoeuf*Physician | $1,180,803 | $0 | $44,542 | $1,114,968 | $0 | $65,835 | $15,642 | $28,900 | $1,225,345 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
These figures come from Dartmouth Health'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 Dartmouth Health compares
Ranked 143rd of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 142nd, Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida, $2,535,492
- Next in this ranking: 144th, Avera Health, $2,504,735
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
WellSpan Health$3,176,598 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
University Hospitals (Cleveland)$4,448,841 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Beth Israel Lahey Health$4,734,371 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
St. Luke's Health System (Idaho)$2,104,597 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Cook Children's Health Care System$3,598,135 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Common questions
Joanne M Conroy MD (Trustee, Ex-Officio, CEO) was paid $2,525,898 for the fiscal year ending June 2025: $2,473,236 from Dartmouth Health and $52,662 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Joanne M Conroy MD, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $2,525,898.
Dartmouth Health paid its CEO, Joanne M Conroy MD, $2,525,898 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $396,757 (18.6%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending June 2022, when the CEO was Joanne M Conroy MD, paid $1,728,788. By fiscal year end: June 2022, $1,728,788 (Joanne M Conroy MD); June 2023, $1,713,475; June 2024, $2,129,141; June 2025, $2,525,898. The 3-month return for the period ending September 2025 reports no officer pay.
Dartmouth Health's return for the fiscal year ending June 2025 reports total expenses of $1,032,507,137 and total revenue of $933,976,465 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so expenses exceeded revenue by $98,530,672. Expenses were $899,753,330 for the fiscal year ending June 2024, so they rose 14.8%. The CEO's pay of $2,525,898 equals 0.24% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 5 Form 990 returns Dartmouth Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on June 15, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending June 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.