Seattle Children's CEO salary and executive pay
The highest-paid person on Seattle Children's' return for the fiscal year ending September 2025 was Jeff Sperring MD, at $2,856,316. That is up $627,134 (28.1%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. Total revenue on that return was $3,072,099,534, up 15.5% from $2,659,433,037 for the fiscal year ending September 2024. Seattle Children's ranks 123rd of 229 hospital systems on this site by top pay. $2,423,160 of Jeff Sperring MD's pay came from related organizations (column E). Seattle Children's has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 91-0564748, Seattle, WA.
Highest-paid person, fiscal year ending September 2025
$2,856,316
No one on this filing has a chief executive title, so this shows the highest-paid person.
- Total revenue
- $3,072,099,534
- Top pay vs. peers
- Higher than 24%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending September 2025, IRS object ID 202632249349300018.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 139th of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.09% 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, 5 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Jeff Sperring MDFORMER OFFICER | $2,856,316 |
| Myra GregorianFORMER KEY EMPLOYEE | $1,429,915 |
| Jamie PhillipsPRESIDENT, SCH & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER | $1,216,857 |
| Suzanne BeitelSENIOR VP & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER | $1,197,661 |
| Eric Tham MDSVP & CHIEF RESEARCH OPS OFFICER | $1,000,442 |
Also paid on the latest return: Bonnie Fryzlewicz (SVP & CHIEF NURSING OFFICER), $878,375; Zafar Chaudry MD (FORMER KEY EMPLOYEE), $860,352; Dondi Cupp (SR VICE PRES & CHIEF DEV OFFICER), $856,470; Vittorio Gallo PhD (SVP & CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER), $840,914; Stan Ra (FORMER KEY EMPLOYEE), $836,557; Jeff Ojemann MD (SVP & CHIEF PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVE), $817,169; Paul Sharek MD (VP - CHIEF QUALITY & SAFETY OFFICER), $655,217; Ruth McDonald MD (VP - DEPUTY CHIEF MED OPS OFFICER), $646,388; Cory Noel MD (CARDIOLOGIST), $632,400; Ryota Kashiwazaki MD (OTOLARYNGOLOGIST), $628,323; Clara Lin MD (ASSOCIATE VP - CHIEF MEDICAL INFO OFFICER), $566,579; John Saavedra (VP & INTERIM CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICER), $553,822; Sean Murphy MD PhD (CHIEF OF PATHOLOGY & LAB MEDICINE), $535,875; Tanya Seaton (VP & CHIEF AMBULATORY OFFICER), $523,260; Samantha Sloane (VP - FINANCE), $513,646; and 13 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Kurt Shintaffer (CHAIR), Mark Okerstrom (TREASURER), Susan Mullaney (VICE CHAIR), Troy Hutson (SECRETARY), Colin Fox Jr PhD (TRUSTEE), Dan Levitan (TRUSTEE), Georgia Lee Zunker (TRUSTEE), Jasmin Zavala (TRUSTEE), Jill Brubaker MD (TRUSTEE), Joel French (TRUSTEE), John Schoettler (TRUSTEE), Ken Denman (TRUSTEE), Kimi King (TRUSTEE), Loren Alhadeff (TRUSTEE), Marcus East (TRUSTEE), Moya Vazquez (TRUSTEE), Susan Betcher (TRUSTEE), Susan Huang (TRUSTEE), Todd Hofheins (TRUSTEE).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return, or the highest-paid person where no one has a chief executive title.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Jeff Sperring MDFORMER OFFICER (highest-paid; no CEO title listed) | $2,856,316 | $3,072,099,534 | Filing |
| Sep 2024 | Jeff Sperring MDFORMER OFFICER (highest-paid; no CEO title listed) | $2,229,182 | $2,659,433,037 | Filing |
| Sep 2023 | Jeff Sperring MD CEO CEO/NON-VOTING EX-OFFICIO | $2,166,022 | $2,334,999,460 | Filing |
| Sep 2022 | Jeff Sperring MD CEO CEO/NON-VOTING EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEE | $1,443,856 | $2,172,764,386 | 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 202632249349300018.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Related | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Jeff Sperring MD*FORMER OFFICER | $4,841 | $2,423,160 | $428,315 | $0 | $0 | $4,841 | $0 | $0 | $4,841 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $1,427,197 | $566,508 | $429,455 | $399,941 | $28,374 | $2,851,475 | |||
| Myra Gregorian*FORMER KEY EMPLOYEE | $1,358 | $1,071,874 | $356,683 | $0 | $5 | $1,353 | $0 | $0 | $1,358 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $642,660 | $429,214 | $0 | $316,697 | $39,986 | $1,428,557 | |||
| Jamie PhillipsPRESIDENT, SCH & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER | $981,236 | $0 | $235,621 | $816,918 | $163,053 | $1,265 | $71,045 | $37,412 | $1,089,693 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $127,164 | $0 | $127,164 | |||
| Suzanne Beitel*SENIOR VP & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER | $3,564 | $961,317 | $232,780 | $0 | $0 | $3,564 | $0 | $0 | $3,564 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $801,341 | $159,976 | $0 | $195,411 | $37,369 | $1,194,097 | |||
| Eric Tham MDSVP & CHIEF RESEARCH OPS OFFICER | $818,697 | $0 | $181,745 | $638,862 | $178,466 | $1,369 | $52,945 | $39,975 | $911,617 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $88,825 | $0 | $88,825 | |||
These figures come from Seattle Children'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 Seattle Children's compares
Ranked 123rd of 229 hospital systems by top pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 122nd, Centra Health, $2,878,656
- Next in this ranking: 124th, Cincinnati Children's, $2,814,850
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Wellstar Health System$5,069,923 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
MemorialCare$7,083,129 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
UF Health Shands$1,608,122 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Boston Medical Center$2,199,373 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Sutter Health$11,904,420 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
The fiscal year ending September 2025 filing does not list anyone with a chief executive title. The highest-paid person, Jeff Sperring MD (FORMER OFFICER), was paid $2,856,316: $4,841 from Seattle Children's, $2,423,160 from related organizations and $428,315 in other compensation (Part VII columns D, E and F).
The highest-paid person on the latest return was Jeff Sperring MD (FORMER OFFICER), at $2,856,316.
The highest-paid person on Seattle Children's' return for the fiscal year ending September 2025 was Jeff Sperring MD, at $2,856,316. That is up $627,134 (28.1%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending September 2022, when the CEO was Jeff Sperring MD, paid $1,443,856. By fiscal year end: September 2022, $1,443,856 (Jeff Sperring MD); September 2023, $2,166,022; September 2024, $2,229,182; September 2025, $2,856,316.
Seattle Children's' return for the fiscal year ending September 2025 reports total expenses of $2,598,347,643 and total revenue of $3,072,099,534 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $473,751,891. Expenses were $2,399,237,578 for the fiscal year ending September 2024, so they rose 8.3%. The highest-paid person's pay of $2,856,316 equals 0.11% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Seattle Children's 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.