So which is America’s highest paid orchestra?

Drew McManus has been doing the math and it looks like the San Francisco Symphony is leading the field for 2017/18, overtaking the swagger of the LA Phil.

Into Drew’s calculations, we have inserted the Met Opera orchestra, which now ranks 7th, a notch behind the National Symphony of Washington DC who have crept up out of nowhere.

Read more analysis from Drew here.

Here’s the league table:
1 San Francisco Symphony – base pay  $166,400
2 Los Angeles Philharmonic                   $164,476
3 Chicago Symphony                                $159,016
4 Boston Symphony                                  $153,400
5 New York Philharmonic                       $147,550
6 National Symphony                              $143,208
7 MET Orchestra                                      $135,328.36
8 Cleveland Orchestra                             $135,096
9 Philadelphia Orchestra                        $134,420

UPDATE: What other people earn in San Francisco.