Ewers declined to speak about specifics of the four separate union contracts, but she pointed out that Kimmel management had taken $1.5 million in salary reductions recently, and that “one has to look at the Philadelphia Orchestra Association in bankruptcy and realize that [a new contract] must be a bigger piece of the puzzle.”
The orchestra owes the Kimmel $1.4 million in back rent, according to Ewers, creating a $450,000 deficit for the Kimmel Center in fiscal year 2011.
She said: “We’re not asking anyone to make sacrifices that we have not already made ourselves.”
This tells me that her "base" salary in 2007 was $315,000. Wondering if she's getting those "financial incentives tied to performance" despite everything going to hell?