Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers CEO salary and executive pay
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers paid its CEO, Sophia A Muirhead, $1,149,504 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $152,733 (15.3%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. Total revenue on that return was $714,064,929, up 9.8% from $650,214,983 for the fiscal year ending December 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has 3 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 13-1656633, Piscataway, NJ.
CEO, fiscal year ending December 2024
$1,149,504
- Total revenue
- $714,064,929
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 55%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202503159349304465.View the filing
Peers: the 330 other organizations on this site with revenue of $500 million to $5 billion. Ranked 149th of 331 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.16% 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, 12 people were paid more than $500,000, 1 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Sophia A Muirhead CEO Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer | $1,149,504 |
| Thomas R SiegertASSISTANT TREASURER & CFO | $645,710 |
| Paul CanningDIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL SALES | $597,508 |
| Francis StaplesSR DIRECTOR GLOBAL SALES & CUSTOMER OPERATIONS | $596,710 |
| Anta Cisse-GreenGENERAL COUNSEL AND CHIEF COMPLIANCE | $567,787 |
Also paid on the latest return: Karen L Hawkins (CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER), $544,837; Judy Brady (REGIONAL SALES MANAGER EMEA), $544,607; Donna Hourican (STAFF EXECUTIVE, CORPORATE ACTIVITIES), $540,729; Cecelia Jankowski (MANAGING DIRECTOR MEMBER & GEOUNIT ACTIVITIES), $514,665; Steven Heffner (MANAGING DIRECTOR PUBLICATIONS), $513,344; Jeffrey Strohschein (CHIEF INFORMATION DIGITAL OFFICER), $508,541; Alpesh Shah (MANAGING DIRECTOR IEEE STANDARDS), $503,464; Kenneth R Gilbert (IMTERIM MANAGING DIRECTOR TECH ACTIVITIES), $417,738; Mary Cecilia Ward-Callan (MANAGING DIRECTOR TECH ACTIVITIES), $386,749.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Deepak Mathur (Director & Vice President, Member & Geographic Activities), Forrest D Wright (Director & Secretary), Gerardo Barbosa (Director & Treasurer), Kathleen A Kramer (IEEE President-Elect), Keith A Moore (Director & President IEEE-USA), Manfred J Schindler (Director & Vice President, Technical Activities), Rabab Kreidieh Ward (Director & Vice President, Educational Activities), Sergio Benedetto (Director & Vice President, Publication Services and Products), Thomas M Coughlin (IEEE President and CEO), Alistair P Duffy (Director & Delegate, Division IV), Andrew D Lowery (Director & Delegate, Region 2), Anthony Matthew Francis (Director & Delegate, Region 5), Aylin Yener (Director & Delegate, Division IX), Bala S Prasanna (Director & Delegate, Region 1), Christina M Schober (Director & Delegate, Division V), Christopher E Root (Director & Delegate, Division VII), ChunChe Lance Fung (Director & Delegate, Region 10), Eric Grigorian (Director & Delegate, Region 3), James E Matthews III (Director & President, Standards Association), Jenifer P Castillo Rodriguez (Director & Delegate, Region 9), Kamal Al-Haddad (Director & Delegate, Division VI), Kathy Herring Hayashi (Director & Delegate, Region 6), Kevin L Peterson (Director & Delegate, Division II), Leila De Floriani (Director & Delegate, Division VIII), Saifur Rahman (IEEE Past President), and 6 more.
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2024 | Sophia A Muirhead CEO Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer | $1,149,504 | $714,064,929 | Filing |
| Dec 2023 | SOPHIA A MUIRHEAD CEO Assistant Secretary & Executive Director | $996,771 | $650,214,983 | Filing |
| Dec 2022 | STEPHEN WELBY CEO Assistant Secretary & Executive Director | $1,308,045 | $566,430,458 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending December 2024.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202503159349304465.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Sophia A MuirheadExecutive Director & Chief Operating Officer | $905,684 | $243,820 | $669,647 | $200,178 | $35,859 | $224,211 | $19,609 | $1,149,504 |
| Thomas R SiegertASSISTANT TREASURER & CFO | $587,124 | $58,586 | $483,300 | $86,930 | $16,894 | $46,000 | $12,586 | $645,710 |
| Paul CanningDIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL SALES | $539,383 | $58,125 | $177,809 | $329,205 | $32,369 | $46,000 | $12,125 | $597,508 |
| Francis StaplesSR DIRECTOR GLOBAL SALES & CUSTOMER OPERATIONS | $530,356 | $66,354 | $235,756 | $259,674 | $34,926 | $53,500 | $12,854 | $596,710 |
| Anta Cisse-GreenGENERAL COUNSEL AND CHIEF COMPLIANCE | $509,004 | $58,783 | $442,226 | $66,240 | $538 | $33,724 | $25,059 | $567,787 |
These figures come from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Form 990 returns, as the IRS publishes them. The methodology page explains how they're chosen. To report an error, email corrections@ceopaycheck.com.
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Common questions
Sophia A Muirhead (Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer) was paid $1,149,504 for the fiscal year ending December 2024: $905,684 from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and $243,820 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Sophia A Muirhead, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $1,149,504.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers paid its CEO, Sophia A Muirhead, $1,149,504 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $152,733 (15.3%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending December 2022, when the CEO was STEPHEN WELBY, paid $1,308,045. By fiscal year end: December 2022, $1,308,045 (STEPHEN WELBY); December 2023, $996,771 (SOPHIA A MUIRHEAD); December 2024, $1,149,504.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' return for the fiscal year ending December 2024 reports total expenses of $600,137,430 and total revenue of $714,064,929 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $113,927,499. Expenses were $534,932,193 for the fiscal year ending December 2023, so they rose 12.2%. The CEO's pay of $1,149,504 equals 0.19% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 3 Form 990 returns Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024. The latest full-year return was filed on November 11, 2025. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending December 2024 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.