Big Bird “Sesame Street” sweepstakes winners!

From the editor: V. Saxena


According to IRS tax filings — the most recent of which covers 2014 — then-president and CEO Melvin Ming was paid more than $586,000 in salary and benefits in the nine months before retiring, which included a $37,500 bonus and $18,700 in benefits. The year before that, Ming cleared $672,391 in salary, bonuses and benefits.

That’s five times the average pay for CEOs at nonprofits, according to Charity Navigator.

The average compensation for the other 10 top officials at Sesame Workshop in 2014 was a very handsome $382,135 — which is about six times the median household income in the U.S.

The biggest winner of all in the Big Bird sweepstakes was “Sesame Street’s” head writer and Muppet performer Joseph Mazzarino, who from 2012 to 2014 made a total of more than $2.2 million, according to Sesame Workshop’s IRS filings.

That means that Big Bird’s writer was comfortably in the top 1%.


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