Educational Testing Service CEO salary and executive pay
Educational Testing Service paid its CEO, Amit Sevak, $2,184,468 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is up $451,648 (26.1%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. Total revenue on that return was $792,021,950, down 27.4% from $1,091,599,460 for the fiscal year ending September 2024. Educational Testing Service has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 21-0634479, Princeton, NJ.
CEO, fiscal year ending September 2025
$2,184,468
- Total revenue
- $792,021,950
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 82%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending September 2025, IRS object ID 202602249349301810.View the filing
Peers: the 330 other organizations on this site with revenue of $500 million to $5 billion. Ranked 58th of 331 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.28% 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, 24 people were paid more than $500,000, 4 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Amit Sevak CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $2,184,468 |
| Ralph Taylor-Smithend 1012024VP CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT | $1,215,956 |
| Jeffrey Alan MelnickSVP & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER | $1,085,784 |
| Steven E SantanaCHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER | $1,065,700 |
| Rohit Sharma End 09302025SVP GLOB HIGHER ED & WORKSKILL | $957,553 |
Also paid on the latest return: Kara N McWilliams End 8172024 (FORMER VP, PRODUCT INNOVATION & DEV.), $892,605; Paul Gollash (VP, K-12-PRAXIS), $883,692; Michelle Elaine Froah End 9302025 (SVP GLOBAL STRATEGY & GROWTH), $874,178; Scott Nelson End 112025 (SVP & CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER), $756,927; Wallace Frank Dalrymple Jr (VP, CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER), $725,252; Sheree L Gregory End 100723 (FORMER DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL & CDO), $716,979; Dennis Stetzel (SVP, PRODUCTION & DELIVERY), $695,064; Peter Chan (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF IT), $671,495; Kadriye Ercikan-Alper (VP PSYCH, STAT & DATA SCIENCE), $657,528; Karen Elizabeth Barton (VP ASSESSMENT OPERATIONS), $648,908; Betanelipeter V (VP, DEP GEN COUNS & CORP SEC), $636,892; Ruma Mukerji (MANAGING DIRECTOR, FP&A), $635,503; Rajeev Garside (GLOBAL MNG DIR FINANCE AND OPS), $626,902; Joanna Gorin End 100122 (FORMER VP RESEARCH), $625,000; Rukshana Mazagonwalla End 060225 (VP, HR), $616,238; and 27 more.
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 | Amit Sevak CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $2,184,468 | $792,021,950 | Filing |
| Sep 2024 | Amit Sevak CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $1,732,820 | $1,091,599,460 | Filing |
| Sep 2023 | Amit Sevak Start 7122 CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $748,744 | $1,058,224,336 | Filing |
| Sep 2022 | Walter Macdonald End 61522 CEO PRESIDENT | $1,385,799 | $1,115,319,662 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending September 2025.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending September 2025, IRS object ID 202602249349301810.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Amit SevakPRESIDENT & CEO | $2,032,670 | $151,798 | $858,103 | $938,050 | $236,517 | $119,357 | $32,441 | $2,184,468 |
| Ralph Taylor-Smithend 1012024*VP CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT | $1,187,598 | $28,358 | $278,648 | $236,013 | $672,937 | $28,358 | $0 | $1,215,956 |
| Jeffrey Alan MelnickSVP & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER | $975,965 | $109,819 | $520,872 | $411,950 | $43,143 | $68,495 | $41,324 | $1,085,784 |
| Steven E SantanaCHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER | $965,135 | $100,565 | $381,878 | $533,997 | $49,260 | $58,312 | $42,253 | $1,065,700 |
| Rohit Sharma End 09302025SVP GLOB HIGHER ED & WORKSKILL | $877,173 | $80,380 | $415,005 | $411,975 | $50,193 | $60,750 | $19,630 | $957,553 |
These figures come from Educational Testing Service'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 Educational Testing Service compares
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Closest in revenue among organizations in the same revenue band:
Plan International$168,840 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Southcentral Foundation$843,695 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Doctors Without Borders USA$386,961 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center$1,224,783 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
American Chemical Society$1,113,221 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
Amit Sevak (PRESIDENT & CEO) was paid $2,184,468 for the fiscal year ending September 2025: $2,032,670 from Educational Testing Service and $151,798 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Amit Sevak, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $2,184,468.
Educational Testing Service paid its CEO, Amit Sevak, $2,184,468 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is up $451,648 (26.1%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending September 2022, when the CEO was Walter Macdonald End 61522, paid $1,385,799. By fiscal year end: September 2022, $1,385,799 (Walter Macdonald End 61522); September 2023, $748,744 (Amit Sevak Start 7122); September 2024, $1,732,820 (Amit Sevak); September 2025, $2,184,468.
Educational Testing Service's return for the fiscal year ending September 2025 reports total expenses of $756,388,237 and total revenue of $792,021,950 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $35,633,713. Expenses were $1,069,258,885 for the fiscal year ending September 2024, so they fell 29.3%. The CEO's pay of $2,184,468 equals 0.29% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Educational Testing Service filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on August 12, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending September 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.