Highest paid conductors

Based on a report by Drew McManus, as reported by Norman Lebrecht:

Here’s the top ten list of earners for the 2014/15 season (evidently more current information is as of yet unavailable):

1 Chicago Symphony: $2,776,869 (Riccardo Muti)
2 San Francisco Symphony: $2,715,815 (Michae Tilson Thomas)
3 Dallas Symphony: $2,657,139 (Jaap Van Zweden)
4 Los Angeles Philharmonic: $1,906,100 (Gustavo Dudamel)
5 New York Philharmonic: $1,672,450 (Alan Gilbert)
6 Cleveland Orchestra: $1,248,711 (Franz Welser-Möst)
7 Philadelphia Orchestra: $1,110,000 (Yannick Nézet-Séguin)
8 Saint Louis Symphony: $1,042,644 (David Robertson)
9 Baltimore Symphony: $1,015,937 (Marin Alsop)
10 Detroit Symphony: $828,591 (Leonard Slatkin)