Sutter Health CEO salary and executive pay
Sutter Health paid its CEO, Warner Thomas, $11,904,420 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $407,379 (3.5%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. Total revenue on that return was $2,685,790,764, up 42.7% from $1,882,657,852 for the fiscal year ending December 2023. Sutter Health ranks 16th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Sutter Health has 3 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 94-2788907, Sacramento, CA.
CEO, fiscal year ending December 2024
$11,904,420
Also listed with a chief executive title on this filing: Mark Muller (SVP, PRIN. CONSULT. PRES/CEO), $2,243,574.
- Total revenue
- $2,685,790,764
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 91%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202503179349311165.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 16th of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.44% of revenue, our calculation from the same return. Revenue is Part I, line 12; peers are compared on their latest full-year returns.
This is the Sutter Health system parent. Sutter affiliates file their own returns. The system's largest single return is filed separately by Sutter Bay Hospitals (EIN 94-0562680), so the revenue shown here is this return's own, not the whole system's.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 26 people were paid more than $500,000, 23 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Warner Thomas CEO PRESIDENT & CEO, SH | $11,904,420 |
| Mark SevcoSVP, COO | $3,655,805 |
| Conrad Vial MDSVP, SH NETWORK PRESIDENT | $2,848,300 |
| Jill RagsdaleSH SVP, CHIEF PPL & CLTR OFCR | $2,596,655 |
| Elizabeth Vilardo-MorganCMO, STRAT & PHIL INITIATIVES | $2,457,564 |
Also paid on the latest return: James Conforti (FORMER INTERIM PRES & CEO, SH), $2,252,729; Mark Muller (SVP, PRIN. CONSULT. PRES/CEO), $2,243,574; Rachael McKinney (PRESIDENT, SACRAMENTO DIVISION), $2,105,261; Eugene Patrizio (PRESIDENT, CENTRAL VALLEY DIV.), $1,903,181; Todd Smith MD (SVP, CHIEF PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVE), $1,878,769; Robert Nordgren (CMO, San Francisco Division), $1,872,284; William Isenberg MD (CHIEF MEDICAL & QUALITY OFF), $1,860,310; Laura Wilt (SVP, CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER), $1,842,183; Cynthia Lee (SVP, CHIEF STRAT. & GROWTH OFF), $1,705,681; Brian Dean (FORMER SH SVP, CFO), $1,674,629; Jennifer Bollinger (SVP,CHIEF CONSUMER & BRAND OFF), $1,596,500; Jacki Monson (SVP, CHIEF INTEGRATION OFFICER), $1,458,871; Florence Di Benedetto (FORMER SVP & GENERAL COUNSEL), $1,377,385; Caren Weakley (SVP, GEN COUN./ASST SEC(PT-YR)), $1,337,038; Raju Iyer (SH SVP, CFO), $1,311,542; and 20 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Herbert Barlow (DIRECTOR), Andrew Dickinson (DIRECTOR).
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 | Warner Thomas CEO PRESIDENT & CEO, SH | $11,904,420 | $2,685,790,764 | Filing |
| Dec 2023 | Warner Thomas CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $11,497,041 | $1,882,657,852 | Filing |
| Dec 2022 | Warner Thomas CEO PRESIDENT & CEO SH (PT-YR) | $3,459,427 | $1,918,502,649 | 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 202503179349311165.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Related | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Warner ThomasPRESIDENT & CEO, SH | $11,323,734 | $0 | $580,686 | $2,589,728 | $8,687,254 | $46,752 | $476,257 | $104,429 | $11,904,420 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Mark SevcoSVP, COO | $3,326,965 | $0 | $328,840 | $1,427,186 | $1,876,261 | $23,518 | $280,857 | $47,983 | $3,655,805 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Conrad Vial MDSVP, SH NETWORK PRESIDENT | $2,548,796 | $0 | $299,504 | $1,156,150 | $1,122,494 | $270,152 | $241,357 | $58,147 | $2,848,300 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Jill RagsdaleSH SVP, CHIEF PPL & CLTR OFCR | $1,453,586 | $1,128,479 | $14,590 | $21,442 | $608,821 | $823,323 | $6,657 | $7,933 | $1,468,176 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $1,128,479 | $0 | $0 | $1,128,479 | |||
| Elizabeth Vilardo-MorganCMO, STRAT & PHIL INITIATIVES | $1,581,984 | $0 | $875,580 | $756,069 | $633,593 | $192,322 | $835,887 | $39,693 | $2,457,564 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
These figures come from Sutter 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 Sutter Health compares
Ranked 16th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 15th, Bon Secours Mercy Health, $12,809,033
- Next in this ranking: 17th, Atlantic Health, $11,531,308
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Northwell Health$5,943,362 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Grady Health System$2,698,520 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Children's Health (Dallas)$4,345,262 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Temple University Hospital$1,176,873 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Rush University System for Health$4,819,778 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Common questions
Warner Thomas (PRESIDENT & CEO, SH) was paid $11,904,420 for the fiscal year ending December 2024: $11,323,734 from Sutter Health and $580,686 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Warner Thomas, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $11,904,420.
This is the Sutter Health system parent. Sutter affiliates file their own returns.
Sutter Health paid its CEO, Warner Thomas, $11,904,420 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $407,379 (3.5%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending December 2022, when the CEO was Warner Thomas, paid $3,459,427. By fiscal year end: December 2022, $3,459,427 (Warner Thomas); December 2023, $11,497,041; December 2024, $11,904,420.
Sutter Health's return for the fiscal year ending December 2024 reports total expenses of $2,544,803,200 and total revenue of $2,685,790,764 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $140,987,564. Expenses were $2,070,243,600 for the fiscal year ending December 2023, so they rose 22.9%. The CEO's pay of $11,904,420 equals 0.47% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 3 Form 990 returns Sutter Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024. The latest full-year return was filed on November 13, 2025. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending December 2024 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.