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Salary Survey 2017: Jeremy Ben-Ami Of J Street

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By Forward Staff December 11, 2017

J Street

Location: Washington, DC

Category: Advocacy or Public Service

Jeremy Ben-Ami

President

Jeremy Ben-Ami

J Street is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group which describes itself as “the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans.” J Street was founded in April 2008 to offer a new voice in the American political conversation about Israel. The group strongly promotes a two-state solution and makes clear that it does not support all Israeli government policies. J Street’s affiliates include an education fund, a university organizing arm called J Street U and a federal political action committee, JStreetPAC.

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Jeremy Ben-Ami is the president and founder of J Street. Before joining J Street, Ben-Ami worked on seven presidential campaigns, including a stint as national policy director for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, and served as deputy domestic policy advisor to the Clinton administration. He also previously served as senior vice president of Fenton Communications before leaving to start J Street. Ben-Ami is a graduate of New York University Law School and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Relations at Princeton University.

2016

Institution Revenue: $8,982,533

Institution Total Expenses: $9,368,022

Employees: 70

Salary: $259,203

2014

Institution Revenue: $2,418,969

Institution Total Expenses: $2,207,771

Employees: 59

Salary: $220,645

Underpaid by: 9%

For information on previous years, see here.

For information on other Jewish nonprofits, see here.

For information on other Jewish religious and education leaders, see here.

¹ _{Interim head of organization}

² _{Data from 2012}

³ _{Data from 2011}

⁴ _{Data from 2010}

⁵ _{Data from 2009}

⁶ _{Data from 2008}

⁷ _{Data from 2007}

⁸ _{Includes payment from SWC Museum Corp.}

⁹ _{Predecessor’s salary}

¹⁰ _{Partial year}

¹¹ _{Not a 501(c)3}

¹² _Annualized

¹³ _{Position currently vacant}

¹⁴ _{As per Form 990, JNF declined to comment}

¹⁵ _{Base salary}

¹⁶ _{Data from president-elect period}

¹⁷ _{2010 Employees}

¹⁸ _{Legally exempt from public disclosure of salary}

¹⁹ _{Highest paid professional, not CEO}

²⁰ _{Paid from two related organizations}

²¹ _{Data from 2013}

²² _{Data from 2014}

²³ _{Data from 2015}

²⁴ _{Includes a one-time honorarium of $55,000}

²⁵ _{Data from 2017}

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