As Georgetown University workers and student organizers push the university for higher wages, Georgetown’s latest federal tax filing offers a public look at the other end of its pay scale. It details hundreds of thousands—and in some cases millions—of dollars in compensation for top administrators and highly paid employees.
Georgetown’s fiscal year 2025 (FY25) Form 990—an annual tax filing required of tax-exempt nonprofit organizations such as universities—shows that six individuals earned more than $1 million in 2024 compensation.
The average nine-month equivalent base salary for full-time, non-medical professors included in Georgetown’s U.S. federal reporting was $233,170 in the 2024-25 academic year, according to Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data. Georgetown Qatar faculty are excluded from this data. Under Georgetown’s Just Employment Policy, the current minimum total compensation for full-time contract workers is $20.82 per hour.
The 990 form is not just a list of Georgetown’s 15 highest-paid employees. Instead, the IRS requires compensation reporting for university officers, directors and trustees, certain “key employees,” and also the five highest-compensated employees not already included in those categories (who earn more than $100,000 in reportable compensation.) Compensation for certain former officials must also be disclosed.
The following 15 individuals are listed in descending order based on their reportable compensation in 2024. Reportable compensation consists of base pay, bonus and incentive compensation, and other reportable compensation reported on an employee’s W-2 or 1099. “Other reportable compensation” encompasses taxable payments beyond an employee’s base pay and bonuses, including severance, and certain deferred and prior compensation that became taxable or reportable in 2024.
Other payments received, such as retirement contributions, some other forms of deferred compensation, and nontaxable benefits, are disclosed separately and not factored into the following ranking.
- Ed Cooley – $5,105,290
Cooley received $4,951,910 in base compensation and another $153,380 in other reportable compensation, totaling $5,105,290 during his first full calendar year as coach.
For comparison, former men’s basketball coach Patrick Ewing (CAS ’85) received roughly $2.3 million in reportable compensation in FY18 for his first year as coach—a figure that grew to just over $4 million in FY23. After Georgetown fired Ewing that year, he received over $12.57 million in the following fiscal year, including nearly $11.4 million from the liquidation of his contract.
- Michael K. Barry – $1,709,493
Barry, whose 2024 earnings include $661,939 in base compensation and $1,047,554 in bonuses and incentives, served as Georgetown’s chief investment officer (CIO) from 2011 through early 2025. In this role, he was in charge of managing the university’s investment portfolios, such as endowment assets, trusts, and operating funds.
During Barry’s tenure, the university’s endowment saw a roughly 260% increase in funds. In FY24, Barry’s last full year as CIO, Georgetown’s Investment Office reported that the university’s endowment was valued at $3.6 billion compared to roughly $1 billion in 2011.
- John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRAD’95) – $1,686,078
DeGioia, who served as university president and board member until Nov. 21, 2024 before stepping down due to health concerns, received $1,686,078 in reportable compensation in 2024. That included $1,004,161 in base pay, $400,000 in bonuses and incentives, and $281,917 in other reportable compensation, including $200,000 net of taxes that was deposited into a retirement account.
Georgetown reported $234,312 in nontaxable benefits for DeGioia, such as university-provided housing, which does not factor into reportable compensation.
- Christopher Gill – $1,290,516
Gill, a managing director in Georgetown’s Investment Office, oversees endowment allocations to public equity, real estate, infrastructure, credit and fixed income, as well as Georgetown’s direct investment program. The Investment Office does not publicly detail the structure of its “direct investment program,” a term generally used to describe investments made directly in companies or other assets rather than through an outside fund. His 2024 base compensation was $415,516, while bonus and incentive pay was $875,000.
Together, Gill and Barry received more than $1.9 million in bonuses and incentives. The university’s 990 form notes that their bonuses were based on quantitative components, like endowment performance, in addition to qualitative components. The bonuses were not calculated as a percentage of revenue.
- Robert M. Groves – $1,186,997
Groves served as Georgetown’s provost until Nov. 26, 2024, before becoming interim president for the Georgetown FY25 tax filings reveal earnings of university’s highest-paid employees remainder of the year. His reportable compensation of $1,186,997 reflects what he earned as provost until November, as well as earnings made in the next month after being named interim president.
- David B. Green – $1,071,417
Green, the university’s senior vice president and chief operating officer (COO), is responsible for administrative issues across all campuses, specifically for financial and operational departments.
While outside of the scope of the reported compensation for the 2024 calendar year, Green was a central figure in conflict over university policies concerning Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle (GUTS) bus drivers in 2025. After Green’s office missed a deadline to respond to a letter from students and drivers, protestors staged a sit-in in the president’s office in December, and Green subsequently informed drivers that they would be permitted to remain Georgetown employees.
- Dr. John L. Marshall – $860,608
Marshall is the associate director of clinical services at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center’s cancer research and treatment center. His reported base compensation for FY25— $769,778—represents a roughly 149% increase from the previous year, despite his total reportable compensation falling by approximately 6% over the same period.
- William C. Wilcox – $842,679
Wilcox, a professor at Georgetown’s Qatar campus, received $842,679 in reportable compensation, and is the only professor reported in the form. The total compensation figure should not just be interpreted as salary, as it includes $406,901 in base earnings and $435,778 in other reportable compensation. Wilcox, who previously served as interim dean from 2021-22, was appointed acting dean of the Qatar campus on June 1, 2026—far after this reported fiscal year.
Wilcox’s base earnings mark a 75% increase from the 2024-25 reported average annual faculty salary of $233,170, though this data does not reflect earnings of Georgetown Qatar faculty.
- William M. Treanor – $827,272
Treanor, the former dean of Georgetown University Law Center (GULC), received $827,272, solely in base pay, in 2024. Treanor served as dean and executive vice president of GULC from 2010 to 2025, making him one of the longest-serving deans in the school’s history.
While outside of the scope of the reported compensation for the 2024 calendar year, Treanor garnered national attention in Feb. 2025 for his response to Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin’s demand that the dean end all diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at GULC. The then-dean argued that Martin’s letter violated the academic freedom of Georgetown professors and unfairly retaliated against Georgetown students for freedoms that fall under the First Amendment.
- Dr. Norman J. Beauchamp – $650,962
Beauchamp, who previously served as Michigan State University’s executive vice president (EVP) for health sciences, received $650,962 after becoming EVP for health sciences and executive dean of the School of Medicine on July 1, 2024, after Dr. Edward B. Healton (see number 12, below) stepped down from the position and became clinical professor emeritus.
In the previous year, Healton’s reportable compensation totaled $1,055,637 for a full year in the same role, versus a half year for Beauchamp.
- Adam R. Adler – $650,817
Vice President and General Counsel Adler received a base compensation of $620,817. Adler’s role consists of providing legal counsel to the president, the board of directors, and senior academic and administrative leadership of the university. His 2024 reportable compensation, strictly base pay, grew by roughly 32% since the prior year. In April 2023, Adler was appointed vice president and general counsel after serving as interim vice president and general counsel, meaning 2024 was his first full year in the role.
- Dr. Edward B. Healton – $536,162
Healton received $536,162 during his final six months as EVP for health sciences and executive dean of the School of Medicine. The 990 filing for both Healton and his successor individually denotes half-year earnings in the position, and therefore neither figure represents a full year of compensation.
- Marie A. Mattson – $525,915
Mattson, who has served as secretary of the university since December 2017, received $525,915 in reportable compensation. She was one of only two women among the 15 individuals detailed in the filing. Mattson’s primary responsibility is “supporting the governance of the University and facilitating the work of the University’s Board of Directors,” serving as a liaison between the board and university administration.
- Narahari Sastry (MPP ’00) -$384,014
Sastry, the university’s chief financial officer (CFO), received $384,014. FY24 compensation reports, which reflect calendar year 2023 earnings, and prior university communications indicate that Sastry began as CFO on April 1, 2024. As a result, the FY25 Form 990 reflects less than a full year in the role.
- Soyica Diggs Colbert – $383,778
Diggs Colbert received $383,778 in reportable compensation, though she did not become the university’s interim provost until Nov. 26, 2024, as Groves became Georgetown’s interim president. Therefore, her reported 2024 compensation does not represent a full year of pay in the provost role. She spent roughly 90% of the year as vice president for interdisciplinary initiatives in the Office of the Provost and the remainder as interim provost. For reference,
Groves received $1,012,882 in reportable compensation as provost in calendar year 2023, offering a point of comparison for the position’s compensation in a full year.
Other benefits disclosed in Georgetown’s 990
In its 990 form, Georgetown disclosed that four officers received first-class business travel, one officer and one highly compensated employee received charter travel, and two officers, one key employee, and one highly compensated employee received companion travel for a spouse, family member, or guest. Since these travel costs were categorized as business-related, they were not reported as taxable compensation.
Additionally, one officer and one highly compensated employee received tax indemnification and/or gross- up payments, which are intended to reimburse or offset certain taxes arising from compensation or benefits. Those payments were included in taxable compensation. One officer also used a social club membership exclusively for business purposes, whose value was reported as taxable compensation.
The filing does not identify which of the employees listed above received any of the aforementioned benefits.
