Who is paid the most, and what do hospital organizations retain?

Methods and limits

• Rankings are scoped to the reviewed datasets above; “highest” means highest among covered, publication-eligible records, not every healthcare organization in the United States.
• Nonprofit figures come from Form 990. Public-company figures come from SEC filings. The Washington view comes from official state reports. Private-company ownership context does not imply that comparable executive pay is public.
• Annual surplus and year-end net assets are different measures and neither is attributed to one hospital building unless a source explicitly supports that scope.
• Names link to journalism only when the identity is exact. Amounts keep their official filing/report source. Journalism may concern another year and is context, not amount provenance.

See methods, sources, and corrections.