Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago CEO salary and executive pay
Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago paid its CEO, Thomas P Shanley MD, $2,617,499 for the fiscal year ending August 2025. That is up $84,618 (3.3%) from the fiscal year ending August 2024. Total revenue on that return was $1,726,489,572, up 13.1% from $1,526,366,047 for the fiscal year ending August 2024. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ranks 137th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 36-2170833, Chicago, IL.
CEO, fiscal year ending August 2025
$2,617,499
- Total revenue
- $1,726,489,572
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 53%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending August 2025, IRS object ID 202621919349300137.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 86th of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.15% 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, 13 people were paid more than $500,000, 4 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Thomas P Shanley MD CEO Ex-Officio Director/President & CEO LCH | $2,617,499 |
| Douglas Grant Stirling PhDPresident & Chief Development Officer (Fdn) | $1,233,094 |
| Lisa M DykstraSVP & Chief Information Officer through 8/31/24 | $1,156,630 |
| Fatema Zanzi EsqEVP, Chief Admin & Legal Officer, Corporate Secretary | $1,106,837 |
| Earl Cheng MDDirector through 12/12/24 | $944,625 |
Also paid on the latest return: Alex P Miller (SVP, Chief Financial Officer), $916,956; Rich Lehmuth (SVP & Chief Strategy Officer), $840,242; Courtney A Hardy MD (Ex-Officio Director begin 1/1/25), $669,498; Kendra Allaband (SVP & Chief People Officer), $631,005; Susan H Gordon (SVP & Chief External Affairs Officer), $628,501; Brian M Stahulak (DNP, RN, SVP, Chief Clinical Officer & Chief Nursing Officer), $613,077; Brenda Paulsen (Chief Operating Officer (SMCRI)), $540,192; Audrey Williams-Lee (SVP & Chief People Officer through 2/2/24), $530,879; Michelle M Stephenson (Former EVP & Chief Operating Officer through 8/26/22), $471,598; Brenda Davis (VP Budget and Financial Planning interim CFO through 2/6/23), $384,176; Santhanam Suresh MD (SVP & Chief of Provider Integration through 1/20/24), $359,193.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Alfreda Bradley-Coar (Director), Andrew N Reyes (Director), Barbara Sullivan (Director), Betsy B Rosenfield (Director through 12/12/24), Brendan F Carroll (Director), Brian D Price (Director), Bruce R Hague (Director through 12/12/24), Bruce S Saltzberg (Director), Carl S Allegretti (Director), Catherine H Gledhill (Director begin 12/12/24), Christopher S Segal (Director), Craig C Martin (Director), Daniel J Murphy (Director), David A Garfield (Director), David A Helfand (Director), Deidra Merriwether (Director through 12/12/24), Dennis J Drescher (Director through 7/28/25), Donald J Edwards (Director), Edward J Wehmer (Director through 12/12/24), Elizabeth A Engelmann (Director), Eric S Smith (Director), Frank R Jimenez (Director), H Thomas Watkins III (Director & Vice Chair), Honey Jacobs Skinner (Director), James F Derose (Director), and 33 more.
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | Thomas P Shanley MD CEO Ex-Officio Director/President & CEO LCH | $2,617,499 | $1,726,489,572 | Filing |
| Aug 2024 | Thomas P Shanley MD CEO Ex-Officio Director/President & CEO LCH | $2,532,881 | $1,526,366,047 | Filing |
| Aug 2023 | Thomas P Shanley MD CEO Ex-Officio Director/President & CEO LCH | $2,400,522 | $1,471,530,057 | Filing |
| Aug 2022 | THOMAS P SHANLEY MD CEO EX-OFFC DIR/PRES & CEO LCH | $2,234,530 | $1,344,549,087 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending August 2025.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending August 2025, IRS object ID 202621919349300137.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Related | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Thomas P Shanley MDEx-Officio Director/President & CEO LCH | $1,992,705 | $0 | $624,794 | $1,285,552 | $449,624 | $257,529 | $590,810 | $33,984 | $2,617,499 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Douglas Grant Stirling PhDPresident & Chief Development Officer (Fdn) | $988,933 | $0 | $244,161 | $558,706 | $259,344 | $170,883 | $207,377 | $36,784 | $1,233,094 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Lisa M Dykstra*SVP & Chief Information Officer through 8/31/24 | $1,140,426 | $0 | $16,204 | $336,210 | $94,513 | $709,703 | $14,086 | $2,118 | $1,156,630 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Fatema Zanzi EsqEVP, Chief Admin & Legal Officer, Corporate Secretary | $932,953 | $0 | $173,884 | $619,075 | $235,530 | $78,348 | $170,345 | $3,539 | $1,106,837 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Earl Cheng MD*Director through 12/12/24 | $0 | $857,781 | $86,844 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $856,989 | $0 | $792 | $46,000 | $40,844 | $944,625 | |||
These figures come from Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago'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 Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago compares
Ranked 137th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 136th, MaineHealth, $2,618,396
- Next in this ranking: 138th, Memorial Health (Illinois), $2,607,083
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Phoenix Children's Hospital$3,558,771 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Rochester Regional Health$4,013,008 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Hennepin Healthcare$1,007,646 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Hospital for Special Surgery$5,329,588 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Willis-Knighton Medical Center$1,235,962 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Common questions
Thomas P Shanley MD (Ex-Officio Director/President & CEO LCH) was paid $2,617,499 for the fiscal year ending August 2025: $1,992,705 from Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and $624,794 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Thomas P Shanley MD, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $2,617,499.
Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago paid its CEO, Thomas P Shanley MD, $2,617,499 for the fiscal year ending August 2025. That is up $84,618 (3.3%) from the fiscal year ending August 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending August 2022, when the CEO was THOMAS P SHANLEY MD, paid $2,234,530. By fiscal year end: August 2022, $2,234,530 (THOMAS P SHANLEY MD); August 2023, $2,400,522; August 2024, $2,532,881; August 2025, $2,617,499.
Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago's return for the fiscal year ending August 2025 reports total expenses of $1,477,118,547 and total revenue of $1,726,489,572 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $249,371,025. Expenses were $1,487,076,341 for the fiscal year ending August 2024, so they fell 0.7%. The CEO's pay of $2,617,499 equals 0.18% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on July 10, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending August 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.