Yale New Haven Health CEO salary and executive pay
Yale New Haven Health paid its CEO, Christopher O'Connor, $4,968,969 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is up $1,108,133 (28.7%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. Total revenue on that return was $1,157,413,267, up 5.0% from $1,102,659,536 for the fiscal year ending September 2024. Yale New Haven Health ranks 64th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Yale New Haven Health has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 22-2529464, New Haven, CT.
CEO, fiscal year ending September 2025
$4,968,969
Also listed with a chief executive title on this filing: Christopher O'Connor (CEO/TRUSTEE (VESTED DEFERRED)), $292,895.
- Revenue on this return
- $1,157,413,267
- This is the system's parent filer; the system's largest single return is filed by Yale New Haven Hospital (EIN 06-0646652), with $4,883,266,662 in revenue on its latest return.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending September 2025, IRS object ID 202602269349302335.View the filing
Revenue is Part I, line 12. Pay as a share of revenue and the peer comparison are not shown for a parent filer.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 25 people were paid more than $500,000, 14 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Christopher O'Connor CEO CEO/TRUSTEE (CURRENT YR COMP) | $4,968,969 |
| Pamela Sutton-WallacePRESIDENT, YNHHS | $3,144,397 |
| Keith ChurchwellFORMER KEY EMPLOYEE | $2,327,667 |
| Marna BorgstromFORMER OFFICER | $2,303,304 |
| Thomas BalcezakEVP & CCO (CURRENT YR COMP) | $2,236,591 |
Also paid on the latest return: Gail Kosyla (TREASURER), $1,988,355; William Aseltyne (ASSOC SEC (CURRENT YR COMP)), $1,721,748; Lisa Stump (SVP/CIO (CURRENT YR COMP)), $1,421,894; Thomas Newman (FORMER (CURRENT YR COMP)), $1,316,157; John Skelly (FORMER OFFICER), $1,306,964; Matthew Comerford (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT), $1,301,860; Melissa Turner (SVP/CHRO (CURRENT YR COMP)), $1,169,180; Carolyn Salsgiver (FORMER OFFICER), $1,163,065; Lorraine Lee (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT), $1,081,102; Deremius Williams (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT), $974,081; Michael Angelini (SVP, TREASURER, CIO), $961,809; Melissa Turner (SVP/CHRO (VESTED DEFERRED)), $951,498; Joseph Bisson (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT), $935,552; Keith Tandler (VP FINANCE), $805,736; Rebecca Matthews (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT), $790,248; and 19 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: W Robert Berkley Jr (TRUSTEE), Jack Callahan (TRUSTEE), Vincent Calarco (TRUSTEE), Jocelyn Cunnungham (TRUSTEE), James Elrod (TRUSTEE), John Falconi (TRUSTEE), Mary Farrell (CHAIR/TRUSTEE), Carlton Highsmith (TRUSTEE), Carlos Hernandez (TRUSTEE), Aaron Hollander (SECRETARY/TRUSTEE), Thomas Ketchum (VICE CHAIR/TRUSTEE), John Lahey (TRUSTEE), Jonathan Lewin MD (TRUSTEE), Linda Lorimer (TRUSTEE), Maurie McInnis (TRUSTEE), B Michael Rauh (TRUSTEE), Ed Rodriguez (TRUSTEE), Scott Strobel (TRUSTEE), James Torgerson (TRUSTEE), Patricia Wilber (TRUSTEE).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Christopher O'Connor CEO CEO/TRUSTEE (CURRENT YR COMP) | $4,968,969 | $1,157,413,267 | Filing |
| Sep 2024 | Christopher O'Connor CEO CEO/TRUSTEE (CURRENT YR COMP) | $3,860,836 | $1,102,659,536 | Filing |
| Sep 2023 | Christopher O'Connor CEO CEO/TRUSTEE | $3,049,924 | $904,769,300 | Filing |
| Sep 2022 | Marna Borgstrom CEO CEO/TRUSTEE | $5,518,962 | $921,332,963 | 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 202602269349302335.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Related | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Christopher O'ConnorCEO/TRUSTEE (CURRENT YR COMP) | $3,964,082 | $0 | $1,004,887 | Not listed on Schedule J | |||||
| Pamela Sutton-WallacePRESIDENT, YNHHS | $2,499,579 | $0 | $644,818 | $1,470,292 | $1,015,760 | $13,527 | $633,153 | $11,665 | $3,144,397 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Keith Churchwell*FORMER KEY EMPLOYEE | $2,327,667 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $372,350 | $1,955,317 | $0 | $0 | $2,327,667 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Marna Borgstrom*FORMER OFFICER | $0 | $2,303,304 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $2,303,304 | $0 | $0 | $2,303,304 | |||
| Thomas BalcezakEVP & CCO (CURRENT YR COMP) | $1,692,135 | $0 | $544,456 | Not listed on Schedule J | |||||
These figures come from Yale New Haven 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 Yale New Haven Health compares
Ranked 64th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 63rd, Sanford Health, $4,999,360
- Next in this ranking: 65th, Mayo Clinic, $4,888,096
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Centra Health$2,878,656 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Kootenai Health$1,281,078 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2025
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare$1,710,461 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
FirstHealth of the Carolinas$1,817,818 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Englewood Health$2,719,250 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
Christopher O'Connor (CEO/TRUSTEE (CURRENT YR COMP)) was paid $4,968,969 for the fiscal year ending September 2025: $3,964,082 from Yale New Haven Health and $1,004,887 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Christopher O'Connor, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $4,968,969.
Yale New Haven Health paid its CEO, Christopher O'Connor, $4,968,969 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is up $1,108,133 (28.7%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending September 2022, when the CEO was Marna Borgstrom, paid $5,518,962. By fiscal year end: September 2022, $5,518,962 (Marna Borgstrom); September 2023, $3,049,924 (Christopher O'Connor); September 2024, $3,860,836; September 2025, $4,968,969.
Yale New Haven Health's return for the fiscal year ending September 2025 reports total expenses of $1,256,752,467 and total revenue of $1,157,413,267 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so expenses exceeded revenue by $99,339,200. Expenses were $1,108,232,476 for the fiscal year ending September 2024, so they rose 13.4%. The CEO's pay of $4,968,969 equals 0.40% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Yale New Haven Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on August 14, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending September 2025 return breaks down pay for 3 of the 5 people in the pay breakdown above.