This gives new meaning to the term “golden years.”
Dr. Herbert Pardes retired as the head of New York-Presbyterian Hospital in 2011, but raked in $2.8 million in compensation last year as “executive vice chairman,” new tax filings obtained by The Post show.
Pardes’ package included $1 million in salary, a bonus of $1.3 million and $436,270 in other, unspecified compensation.
A New York-Presbyterian spokeswoman would not comment specifically on Pardes’ role other than to say he was working “to advance health care, science and research that improves the lives of our patients and the entire hospital community.”
She also would not say whether Pardes was among those hospital execs entitled to a housing allowance or first-class air travel.
He wasn’t the only local honcho collecting a fat pay check and million-plus-dollar bonus last year to run a non-profit hospital. Dr. Steven Corwin, the current New York-Presbyterian CEO, made $4 million in 2013, with a $1.5 million salary and $1.3 million bonus.
“We have a really lopsided health system with the rich getting richer,” said Judy Wessler, former head of the Commission on the Public’s Health System. “Continuing to spend health-care dollars in this way pulls stuff out of the system that can be used to provide care. A lot of people are not getting health care.”
Other top-earning CEOs included Dr. Steven Safyer, the head of Montefiore Medical Center, who made $4.1 million with a salary of $1.5 million and a retirement payout of $1.6 million.
The head of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, which includes Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan and Staten Island University Hospital, had a compensation package that came to $4.3 million, including a $1.7 million bonus.
The compensation for Dr. Kenneth Davis, head of the Mount Sinai Health System, jumped by nearly $900,000 in 2013 to $4.1 million.
“Dr. Davis’ compensation was adjusted in 2013 in order to align his salary more closely with his peers,” a hospital spokesman said.
An industry group defended the high pay.
“Hospital CEO compensation reflects their enormous responsibilities, the complexity of running a medical center that is often the largest employer in a community, and the national market for their talents,” said Brian Conway, a spokesman for the Greater New York Hospital Association, an industry trade group.