A Museum Director Who Makes Way Over Scale (But Why?)

How do museums set salaries for their directors? That’s what Tacoma News-Tribune reporter Jen Graves wants to know after noting that the small Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art has paid its director $282,000 in salary and $34,000 in benefits. The median museum director salary in the Western United States is $188,000. “At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, an operation roughly 10 times the size of MoG and with $280 million in net assets, the director makes $267,245.” So what has the glass museum got for its money from its departing director?