CEO's Salary

Our President and CEO, Pierre Ferrari, earned $443,745 in salary and benefits between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019, according to Part VII of our Fiscal Year 2019 Internal Revenue Service Form 990 filing. His total compensation is approximately three-tenths of one percent, or 0.3 percent, of overall organizational expenses.

There are hundreds of nonprofit CEO jobs open every year, and we, like other organizations, seek to ensure that we can attract and retain a great mission-oriented leader. Our Board of Directors, which establishes the CEO's salary, acknowledges that donors want their gifts to go to well-run, mission-driven, efficient organizations. The size of Heifer, our rapidly evolving work as well as the complexity of the CEO's responsibilities (fundraising, board management, business responsibilities, public engagement, etc.) require a salary to attract and retain the very best candidate in the market