Salem Health CEO salary and executive pay
Salem Health paid its CEO, Cheryl R Nester Wolfe, $1,730,320 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $13,498 (0.8%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. Total revenue on that return was $1,235,944,658, up 8.3% from $1,141,461,128 for the fiscal year ending June 2024. Salem Health ranks 196th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Salem Health has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 93-0579722, Salem, OR.
CEO, fiscal year ending June 2025
$1,730,320
- Total revenue
- $1,235,944,658
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 50%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending June 2025, IRS object ID 202621269349303082.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 92nd of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.14% 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, 20 people were paid more than $500,000, 7 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Cheryl R Nester Wolfe CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $1,730,320 |
| Logan P PriollaudCARDIAC ANESTHESIOLOGIST | $1,311,774 |
| James K ParrEVP OF OPERATIONS & CFO | $1,276,511 |
| Leah M MitchellEVP OF OPERATIONS & CIO | $1,242,789 |
| Matthew S BolesVP MEDICAL AFFAIRS | $1,236,073 |
Also paid on the latest return: Nestor F Mercado (MED DIRECTOR CATH LAB OPS), $1,108,205; Marc C Mallouf (CARDIOLOGIST INTERVENTIONAL), $1,034,902; Nikolay L Manuylov (CARDIAC ANESTHESIOLOGIST), $985,737; Christine G Clarke MD (SHMG CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER), $985,479; Nervin H Fanous MD (CARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON), $963,611; Jonathan H Bauer (CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER), $957,052; Ralph A Yates (CMO SALEM HEALTH), $951,767; Sarah Horn (SR VP & CHF NRS & CLNC OPS OF), $937,424; Shea M Corum (CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER), $810,655; Jennifer R Fowler (VP FINANCE), $770,786; Katherine A Dobler (VP MEDICAL GROUP), $741,271; Jaime L Nichols (FORMER CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER), $676,985; James R Bauer (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER), $665,261; Leilani R Slama (VP COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT), $559,400; Amie M Wittenberg (VP CLINICAL OPERATIONS), $558,902.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Alan Wynn (SECRETARY/TREASURER), Angelica Vega (TRUSTEE), Camille Mercier Start 0225 (TRUSTEE), David Harrison MD THRU 0425 (TRUSTEE), Jenn Columbus (TRUSTEE), John Combes MD (CHAIR), Katherine L Keene (CHAIR ELECT), Lane Shetterly (PAST CHAIR), Lee Sacks Start 1024 (TRUSTEE), Mark Zook (TRUSTEE), Phil Jackson (TRUSTEE), Ricardo Linares (TRUSTEE), Robert Kelly MD (TRUSTEE), Theresa Haskins (TRUSTEE).
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 | Cheryl R Nester Wolfe CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $1,730,320 | $1,235,944,658 | Filing |
| Jun 2024 | Cheryl R Nester Wolfe CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $1,716,822 | $1,141,461,128 | Filing |
| Jun 2023 | Cheryl R Nester Wolfe CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $1,616,278 | $1,005,277,950 | Filing |
| Jun 2022 | Cheryl R Nester Wolfe CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $1,527,117 | $963,900,183 | 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 202621269349303082.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Cheryl R Nester WolfePRESIDENT & CEO | $1,680,819 | $49,501 | $1,004,098 | $286,407 | $390,314 | $29,325 | $20,176 | $1,730,320 |
| Logan P PriollaudCARDIAC ANESTHESIOLOGIST | $1,262,380 | $49,394 | $1,118,353 | $0 | $144,027 | $18,975 | $30,419 | $1,311,774 |
| James K ParrEVP OF OPERATIONS & CFO | $1,158,173 | $118,338 | $834,542 | $259,029 | $64,602 | $88,265 | $30,073 | $1,276,511 |
| Leah M MitchellEVP OF OPERATIONS & CIO | $1,152,814 | $89,975 | $837,686 | $259,029 | $56,099 | $88,265 | $1,710 | $1,242,789 |
| Matthew S BolesVP MEDICAL AFFAIRS | $1,127,970 | $108,103 | $840,763 | $243,148 | $44,059 | $77,792 | $30,311 | $1,236,073 |
These figures come from Salem 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 Salem Health compares
Ranked 196th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 195th, Riverside Health System, $1,730,414
- Next in this ranking: 197th, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, $1,713,883
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Stormont-Vail Healthcare$1,829,935 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Gundersen Health System$1,397,550 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida$2,535,492 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Parkview Health$3,677,159 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Children's Minnesota$4,156,070 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
Cheryl R Nester Wolfe (PRESIDENT & CEO) was paid $1,730,320 for the fiscal year ending June 2025: $1,680,819 from Salem Health and $49,501 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Cheryl R Nester Wolfe, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $1,730,320.
Salem Health paid its CEO, Cheryl R Nester Wolfe, $1,730,320 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $13,498 (0.8%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending June 2022, when the CEO was Cheryl R Nester Wolfe, paid $1,527,117. By fiscal year end: June 2022, $1,527,117 (Cheryl R Nester Wolfe); June 2023, $1,616,278; June 2024, $1,716,822; June 2025, $1,730,320.
Salem Health's return for the fiscal year ending June 2025 reports total expenses of $1,321,084,661 and total revenue of $1,235,944,658 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so expenses exceeded revenue by $85,140,003. Expenses were $1,193,883,672 for the fiscal year ending June 2024, so they rose 10.7%. The CEO's pay of $1,730,320 equals 0.13% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Salem Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on May 6, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending June 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.