Kiryas Joel, Monroe, NY - Chief Of Nonprofit Organizations Rakes In Triple The Salary

Kiryas Joel, Monroe, NY - The executive director who runs the nonprofit organizations Hamaspik for the disabled in Kiryas Joel and in Monsey, made $452,000 in total compensation in 2004, by collecting $283,000 that year in separate salaries for the two organizations, - almost triple the pay of one industry peer with a much larger operation to run. An other $169,000 spent that year on him, is less clearly defined; he is claiming that that money is set aside for retirement.
While the pay is unusually high, there is no indication that it violates any government rules.

Hamaspik runs group homes and provides other services for disabled children and adults in three Orthodox Jewish communities, in Kiryas Joel, Monsey and Brooklyn. It has no connection to the Kiryas Joel public school for students with mental and physical disabilities. Almost all of the combined $13 million that the Rockland and Orange County Hamaspiks collected in 2004 came from Medicaid and Medicare.

The executive director declined an interview requests, but answered some questions via e-mail. In one message, he explained his two salaries by saying he works full-time hours - meaning 40 hours a week - at each of the two Hamaspik operations. "I work for each agency as hard as or harder than any counterpart," he said.
In another note, he justified his deferred compensation as a pension that makes up for "many previous years not being compensated."